Part 12 (1/2)

”Not the least little bit that ever was It done a lot o' har's heart was bust After that beatin' he weren't never the saain--he seeht as well have lain down an' died in the traces, for all the use he was to the teaood for a leader any ”

”Do you use s?” asked Grenfell

”Sure us does Makes 'e's ankles, cuttin' three little holes for the claws”

”I know,” said Grenfell ”And the dog sometimes eats his own shoes, doesn't he?”

”Yes, sir Till he gets to knohat the shoes is for I've had s eat their own harness, it so tired they wouldn't rather fight than sleep I'd just like to knohat'd wear out a husky so he wouldn't be ready for a scrap They likes fightin' next to eatin'!”

”I suppose you feed your dogs once a day?” said the Doctor

”Yes, Doctor Only--they puts down the two fish I gives 'eits much fun out o'

their supper”

Then the sick h feebly ”It 's in the deep snoas just goin' to build ht There was a herd o' caribou coun ready in tis--they tears 'emselves loose from the traces, 'cause I hadn't taken 'em out yet, an' off they starts like the wind They leaves behind one littleShe was their leader--they was oes like a shot froun, me runnin' an' yellin' after 'em

”Pretty soon they finds a deer a hunter had shot an' must ha' left behind 'cause he had so much he couldn't carry any more

”Anyway, they didn't ask no questions They eats an' eats till you could see 'ein' way out like they had sed a football

”Well sir, would you believe it? All those dogs wa'n't such pigs

There was one hadn't forgot the poor little ole o with 'eht back a whole hunk out o' the leg o' that deer, an' he laid it doithin her reach, where she could grab it up an' give a gnaw to it when she felt like it”

”That reminds me,” said Grenfell ”A settler and his wife, in a lonely place, got the 'flu' They were so weak they couldn't take care of each other The poor woet what little food there was, and she couldn't cook it when she got it

”But she ed to write in pencil on a bit of paper, 'come over quickly' She put it in a piece of sealskin and tied it with a piece of deer-thong round a dog's neck

”He ran with it to the nearest house, which was ten ht the back in a day or two to see how you are And I'll call in on neighbor Martha Dennis, and she'll s got”

”Thank you, Doctor! I'll be glad to see you when you comes back I don't knohat us would do, if it wasn't for you, Doctor!”

To the stories that the Doctor and his patient told each other ence of the ”husky” dogs

So in his winter's supply of fire-wood, will send the dog hoood wife looks about, to see what the dog's otten It may be an axe-head, or his pipe, or his lunch of bread and potatoes

Whatever it is, she ties it to the dog and back he trots to his er

But one of the finest deeds set down to the credit of a ”husky” is what a plain, every-day ” did at Martin's Point, on the west coast of Newfoundland near Bonne Bay, in Decelish co her last southward trip of the season I knew the _Ethie_ well, every inch of her, for I had made the up trip and the down trip aboard her only a feeeks before Through no fault of her gallant captain, she had been carrying a great ers than she ever was meant to carry On a pinch, she had acco up the fisherus, she had taken three hundred passengers From a hundred to two hundred was a coh to find a ”berth” in the s-saloon