BALDY OF NOME 



like Oolik nor society favorites like 

 Nomie. 



Also Baldy's intolerance of Her had a 

 personal side and was aggravated by the 

 fact that She frequently gave him such an 

 ill-sounding title as "Pessimist" or "Dog- 

 ones." The latter, She carefully ex- 

 plained to him, was not a bad name, only 

 a bad joke, which, however, was no balm 

 to his injured feelings. It was after they 

 had arrived at the Hot Springs that 

 Tom's brutal crimes and subsequent 

 hypocrisy had made Baldy feel the in- 

 justice of a world that seldom delves be- 

 low the surface of things. 



Tom had always hated Eskimo dogs ; 

 he either chose to ignore his own huskie 

 blood, or else felt it was superior to the 

 native strain in the malamutes of the 

 Coast, just as some people proudly boast 

 of being descended from Pocahontas, who 

 would shudder at the mere idea of a 



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