BALDY OF NOME 



ing to welcome "classy" dogs, as George 

 and Danny called them, like Fighting 

 Bob, Hiram Johnson or dainty Margaret 

 Winston, the new thoroughbred fox 

 hound from Kentucky. 



He even admitted that there were dogs, 

 neither workers nor racers, who had 

 gained a sort of popular distinction that 

 was recognized by both the human and 

 canine population of the city, and while 

 it was impossible for him to comprehend 

 the reason, he accepted the fact philo- 

 sophically. There was Oolik Lomen, 

 who was born on Amundsen's ship, the 

 "Gjoa," when on the voyage that resulted 

 in the discovery of the Northwest Pas- 

 sage. Oolik, possibly from pride in his 

 birth place or because of his unusual ap- 

 pearance, was haughty to the verge of in- 

 solence, and to Baldy he represented the 

 culmination of all the charming but use- 



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