BALDY OF NOME 



CHAPTER I. 



Characters of the Racing Kennel Tom, 

 Dick, Harry, and the Others. 



BALDY always hated to have people 

 go through the Kennel; he knew so 

 well what to expect, and in some way, 

 used to it as he was, it never failed to hurt. 

 Everyone began, of course, with Tom, 

 Dick, and Harry, and he heard again and 

 again that they were the veterans of 

 Alaska dog racing, and had been in all of 

 those unique dashes across the snow-swept 

 wastes of Seward Peninsula from Bering 

 Sea to the Arctic Ocean and return, and 

 had never been "out of the money." He 

 was quite prepared for the exclamation, 

 "How wonderful!" accompanied by a 

 caress admiringly given and enthusiastic- 

 ally received; for Tom, Dick, and 



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