BALDY OF NOME 



Siwash squaw ancestress. At all events, 

 Tom had resented the entrance of the 

 Eskimo dog, Wolf, into the Kennel, and 

 never failed, when "Scotty" was not 

 about, to manifest an enmity that would 

 have told a civilized dog not to attempt 

 any liberties with him. But Wolf was 

 only an ignorant puppy, taken from an 

 Eskimo igloo, where all of the dogs and 

 all of the family had lived in happy har- 

 mony; and so, one day, when he was par- 

 ticularly joyous, he nipped, in the spirit 

 of mischief, the end of Tom's wagging 

 stump of a tail. Tom wheeled instantly, 

 his hair bristling, and his jaws apart, 

 but the timely entrance of Matt made 

 further demonstrations impossible; and 

 Tom's instinctive dislike for Wolf grew 

 into an obsession after that direct and 

 personal insult. In their well appointed 

 quarters in Nome, with each dog in his 

 own stall, revenge was out of the ques- 



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