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HUNTING DOGS. 



Handlinin:? feeding, training calls for more 

 judgment and patience than skill, driving especi- 

 ally. Tlie}^ refuse to cross apparently weak yet 

 tested ice, pressure ridges, ice or snow cracks 

 and mulelike, will make a plunging jump over a 

 depression (when in trace) which ordinarily 



Sledge Dog. — Photo From Life. 



vould not call for a leap at all. They require 

 vratchfulness on the part of the driver over cross 

 country or Avhen not following the trail, lest 

 they sheer off from a given direction or straight 

 line. 



When following the trail much confidence is 

 vested in the leader and should perchance it 

 strike a blind or cross trail, it will howl to at- 



