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perhaps the best specimens of the white 
variety seen w:thin 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. 
Perhaps Mr. W. K. Taunton’s Sir 
THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. 
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 
BELGIAN DRAUGHT 
Johm 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 
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 
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- 
