BALDY OF NOME 



menaced each time Mego forced her 

 amiable but unwelcome attentions on 

 Nellie's attractive malamute family. But 

 Baldy noticed that this failing seemed to 

 create only kindly amusement or sym- 

 pathy, so perhaps after all, motives and 

 not results are occasionally considered 

 at least where the affectionate impulses 

 of mothers are concerned. In Baldy the 

 idea of the greatest good for the greatest 

 number was strong, and he wished that she 

 might appropriate Nellie's entire brood, 

 and elude Matt's sense of justice which 

 rendered unto Nellie the puppies that 

 were hers in spite of the knowledge that 

 Mego was a far more tender and judi- 

 cious parent. 



Down the visitors would come between 

 the stalls, Baldy dreading the moment 

 they would reach him. On past Barney 

 and Mike, Priest and Irish, and all of the 

 others, to where he, outwardly unmoved 



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