B ALD Y OF NOM E 



CHAPTER VI. 



Kennel Gossip. 



THE days and weeks and months now 

 slipped quickly and happily away 

 for Baldy. There was one episode that he 

 did not care to dwell upon too often 

 their defeat in one of the big Sweepstakes 

 by two teams of the Siberians. It would 

 have been far less trying if their success- 

 ful opponents had been Alaskans, but for 

 those "fuzzy-wuzzy Russian lap dogs," 

 as She called them, to come in first and 

 second, and break a record at that, was 

 most humiliating. Baldy was too true a 

 sport not to admit, even to himself, that 

 they were beaten fairly and squarely, but 

 he had many excuses in his own mind for 

 so deplorable a happening. He felt they 

 had gone into the contest weak; there had 

 not been enough dependable dogs in the 



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