BALDY OF NOME 



built far back on the tundra which 

 stretches away, a bog in summer, to the 

 hills in the distance. In winter this is, 

 however, a wide sweep of spotless snow 

 crossed by well defined trails and it was 

 here they came for exercise , sometimes 

 even going into the mountains which rose 

 rugged and majestic from the vast white 

 plain to a sky brilliantly blue in the 

 dazzling Arctic sunshine, or sodden and 

 gray in a storm. 



At last the Great Day came. There 

 was an early stir in the Kennel and every- 

 thing was confusion. Even Dubby, a 

 dignified old huskie, came in to see what 

 was happening. Dubby, pensioned and 

 retired, with a record of over thirty thou- 

 sand miles in harness to his credit, lived a 

 delightful and exclusive existence in his 

 own apartments over the barn. That he 

 might not feel utterly useless he had been 

 given the honorary position of Keeper of 



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