166 ICE-BOUND ON KROLGUEY 
side of the choom you had but to snap your flngers and 
whisper Chua,’ and in a moment he was sprawling all 
over you, wrigeling like an ecl. 
These, then, were some of the doys. 
Off went Mckolka on his sleigh, and rounded up the 
the herd. It was not so easy as it may seem, There 
were five hundred reindeer in’ this herd, and they were 
seattercd fir away. But the team was taken ata rapid 
trot round and round the herd, and the dogs worked also, 
as sheep-dogs work at home, ‘The bulls and) steers 
would always run from the dogs, but a cow, especialy if 
she had a younvish calf, would often charge and charge 
again. But the whole herd is brought up at last; the 
steers and bulls being then penned for tna strong herd 
such ats this the cows arc not worked at this time of year. 
As the deer come up all the ‘choom! turns out to meet 
them. The draught deer as a rule are pretty quiet, and 
draw up together more or less of their own aecord, 
They are brought up on to the level rise on which 
stands the choom, and thea the women and children en- 
circle the lots, with a bit of light string held in the hand, 
while the men going into the ring make up their various 
teams. Some of the deer have to be caught and haltered ; 
some are so quict that an arm over their necks is suflt 
cient to guide them about, 
Then the creatures are harnessed up, and off we po, 
The two little girls cach drove their team of three 
reindeer, and wonderfully well they manayed, jumping on 
