BALDY OF NOME 



CHAPTER III 



Dubby. 



WHEN the real training for the 

 Sweepstakes began, it was interest- 

 ing work for them all. Dogs were re- 

 jected or accepted till it appeared as if the 

 best, the strongest, and most willing dogs 

 in Alaska were ready, under "Scotty's" 

 careful discipline, for the contest. Baldy 

 could not quite understand what it meant, 

 he realized that these long swift runs with 

 the sled empty of freight or passengers 

 did not mean a business trip such as they 

 made in delivering goods to the miners on 

 the creeks ; yet there was certainly a seri- 

 ousness about the whole affair that put 

 the dogs on their mettle. 



The town of Nome, extending along 

 the shore of Bering Sea for over two 

 miles, is very narrow, not having been 



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