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THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. 



perhaps the best specimens of the white affectionate and gentle. He died in January, 

 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. 



igo2 — curiousl}' 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 



The Eskimo has never been fashionable years have been Mr. Temple's Boita, a huge 

 as a companion, but some e.xcellent specimens dog ; Mr. H. C. Brooke's Arctic Imperator, 

 of the breed have been imported from time bred at the Zoo ; Mr. Temple's Arctic Queen ; 

 to time. Perhaos Mi". W. K. Taunton's Sir :\rctic Prince — a black son of Arctic King, 



Mr. Stoneham's Eric, 

 and Messrs. Brooke and 

 King's imported pure 

 wliite 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 with 

 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 



BELGIAN DRAUGHT DOGS. 



John Franklin was as perfectly typical as 



any. Jfr. 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 awning, and lying near it the two or three 



with white points. Arctic King was fre- muscular canines which have drawTi it 



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 



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 



Casella, was the last surviving dog member give the impression of being cruelly over- 

 of the historic pack used by Lieutenant worked. They often drag considerable loads 

 Peary in his crossing of Greenland. He which seem too much to tax their strength, 

 was very much like Arctic King, but taller Many of them, too, may be muzzled, con- 

 and more gaunt and wolf-like. He was also veying the idea that hard labour and ill- 

 less of a savage bully. With other dogs he usage have made them dangerously savage, 

 was ill-tempered, but with humans most But as a matter of fact cruelty and over- 



