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THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. 



perhaps the best specimens of the white 

 variety seen within recent years, and Mrs. 

 Morrison's Alaska and Rex Albus are an 

 admirable pair. Of the black or black-and- 

 white variety Mrs. Morrison's Peter the 

 Great and Mrs. Everitt's imported Malchik. 

 have been among the most notable. 



The Eskimo has never been fashionable 

 as a companion, but some excellent specimens 

 of the breed have been imported from time 

 to time. Perhaos Mr. W. K. Taunton's Sir 



BELGIAN DRAUGHT DOGS. 



John Franklin was as perfectly typical as 

 any. Mr. H. C. Brooke's Arctic King, 

 a Hudson's Bay dog, was another good one 

 of the pure strain, brought from his native 

 land as a puppy by a Dundee whaler. He 

 was 22 inches at the shoulder, in colour grey 

 with white points. Arctic King was fre- 

 quently exhibited in Great Britain and 

 France, and was the winner of over seventy 

 first prizes. Farthest North, who also be- 

 longed to Mr. Brooke, and later to Miss Ella 

 Casella, was the last surviving dog member 

 of the historic pack used by Lieutenant 

 Peary in his crossing of Greenland. He 

 was very much like Arctic King, but taller 

 and more gaunt and wolf-like. He was also 

 less of a savage bully. With other dogs he 

 was ill-tempered, but with humans most 



affectionate and gentle. He died in January, 

 1902 curiously enough for a dog that had 

 lived most of his life within the Arctic circle 

 from the effects of a chill on the liver. His 

 outer self is preserved in a glass case in 

 the Natural History Museum at Kensington. 

 Other notable Eskimo dogs of recent 

 years have been Mr. Temple's Boita, a huge 

 dog ; Mr. H. C. Brooke's Arctic Imperator, 

 bred at the Zoo ; Mr. Temple's Arctic Queen ; 

 Arctic Prince a black son of Arctic King, 

 Mr. Stoneham's Eric, 

 and Messrs. Brooke and 

 King's imported pure 

 white bitch Greenland 

 Snow, who is still alive. 

 Belgian Draught 

 Dogs. The stranger 

 resting for a while in 

 Brussels, Antwerp, 

 Bruges or Ghent, or in 

 any one of the pictur- 

 esque towns of Flanders, 

 and taking his morning 

 walk through the old- 

 world streets is usually 

 impressed by the num- 

 ber of little carts which 

 he sees busily minister- 

 ing to the needs of the 

 inhabitants, loaded wifh 

 milk cans, loaves, 

 butcher's meat, or vege- 

 tables, and drawn by dogs. Any sunny 

 morning in the thronged market-place 

 of a town like Antwerp or Malines, one 

 may see a crowd of vendors' stalls or 

 barrows, each shaded with its coloured 

 awning, and lying near it the two or three 

 muscular canines which have drawn it 

 thence from the outlying market gardens. 



In hot weather, when the dogs pant under 

 their burdens as they strain at the shafts or 

 between the wheels, it may be that they 

 give the. impression of being cruelly over- 

 worked. They often drag considerable loads 

 which seem too much to tax their strength. 

 Many of them, too, may be muzzled, con- 

 veying the idea that hard labour and ill- 

 usage have made them dangerously savage. 

 But as a matter of fact cruelty and over- 



