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pany allowed its men en-voyage five pounds 

 of meat a day, while the kiddies were entitled 

 to three pounds each from the community 

 larder. In British Columbia and the Yukon 

 the allowance was one salmon; on the Atha- 

 basca one wild goose or three whitefish; and 

 up on the Arctic foreshore, two fish and three 

 pounds of reindeer meat. This was the sched- 

 uled fare, but the grimness of the joke ap- 

 pears in the fact that the man had to run his 

 breakfast to earth before he had it. 



"During the last five years, furs the world 

 over have been increasingly fashionable, with 

 a corresponding advance in prices. To this 

 end no one cause has contributed so strongly 

 as the automobile. The quick, exhilarating 

 motion makes necessary warm clothing of 

 compact texture. This is a self-evident truth. 



"Should the most valuable fox that runs be 

 called a black fox of a silver fox? What is 

 the highest price ever paid for a single fox 

 skin? Don't try to get to the bottom of these 

 innocent looking demands. That way mad- 

 ness lies. How old is Ann? pales before this. 



"Canadian foxes present themselves patri- 

 otically in red, white and blue; there are also 

 black foxes and silver ones. The white and 

 blue phases of the Arctic fox (eanis lagapus) 



