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also keep his feet to secure safety from a similar fate. A 

 few months before our visit a child at Cartwright, one of 

 the Hudson's Bay posts, slipped upon a wooden jetty and 

 fell amongst the huskies. There were upwards of fifty 

 bites upon her before her mother, who showed the highest 

 courage, succeeded in driving the brutes off. During the 

 daytime the husky is fairly amenable to the well-aimed 

 stone, but at night, or under stress of temptation, the savage 

 wolf nature breaks out at once. I can still remember an 

 anxious pilgrimage I made in the starshine to fetch a shirt 

 I had left to dry on the bushes, during which I was accom- 

 panied by Buller and his fellows, all treading delicately. 



In the summer time the ordinary Labrador livyere 

 does not trouble himself overmuch with the problem of 

 dog food. If he happens to catch a fish unfit for human 

 consumption he carries it home for the dogs ; if not, the 

 animals are left unfed and support themselves by theft or 

 by long hunting expeditions. On one occasion I nearly 

 added a husky to my bag. I came upon him among the 

 spruces some miles inland, and had already thrown the 

 rifle to my shoulder when I recognised that the creature 

 slinking through the shadows was not a wolf, but a dog. 



Summer is the hard season for the husky, his owner 

 probably thinking that as he does no work at that time 

 he needs no food ; but as soon as the snow comes and the 

 komatiks or sledges appear the lot of the husky undergoes 

 a change. He is then fed and looked after as much as he 

 needs, and the latter at least more than he likes. He is 

 the outward and visible sign of the prosperity and status 

 of his owner. A man possessing four dogs is poor, eight 

 makes him well-to-do, while a livyere who can count upon 

 sixteen has attained the dignity of a very solid yeoman of 

 the Labrador. 



But the huskies have taken us far from our theme. 

 Mrs. Broomfield told us that her husband and son were in 



