BALDY OF NOME 



CHAPTER IV. 



The Great 4OO-Mile Race of the All- 

 Alaska Sweepstake Baldy 

 Makes Good. 



BALDY never forgot that morning. 

 Through the narrow streets, gay 

 with the waving banners and fluttering 

 streamers of the Kennel Club green and 

 gold, they went, the eager, laughing, 

 pushing throngs of people closing in upon 

 them till Baldy longed to howl in sheer 

 fright, though howling in harness was 

 strictly forbidden by "Scotty." What a 

 relief it was to reach an open space on the 

 smooth ice of Bering Sea in front of the 

 town! Here the gathering crowds were 

 held back by ropes, and only a few moved 

 about, overlooking a team that stood be- 

 tween two stands in which were judges, 

 timekeepers, and fur-clad heralds with 



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