| Show Driving a Team of Dogs From the London Ont Times Well here we are down an tile lop and I he dogs Impatient to tnt Let me describe Die sled eonslols ot a narrow box four feet lent tJ t 0 front half being covered i or boxed Inwount I 111n lto J ngg rhrt ion i cal on 1 floor eight feet long resting on runners In this box the poen ger site apped In rabbit sktlls a < that he can hardly move his harI 1 and ohouldel only projecting In front and behind I an J on top of the box Is laced all the luggage covered w lIh canvas and Securely lashed to withstand land all the Jolting and Possible i UI sets and our snowshoes lthln cast reach An Important film Is the dog mhIP = = = terrible to the doc If u1 by a skilful hand and terrible to tin user If ho be II 1I0ee for he Is I sure to half strangle hlmitlf or to hurt hU own tile A till the business end of the lash Tho whip I measured had a handle little Inches long and lash thirty feet land weighed four pounds The lash was nf folded and plaited seal hide and for five e1 from the handle mens urel live Inches round then for four tjon in teen teet It red un fly tapered oftnd Ing I In a Ingle thong half In Inch thick IIIId cloven feet long Wondertul the dexterity with which a driver can Pick 1 out I Ung and almost a spot on n big I Ill this lash The hJh must bo Ironing at full length ehlml I lhell Il jerk anti turn at the irlst causes It to fly for old the thick Dart first and the tapering end continuing the motion mo-tion 1 till I It I I Is I nl full length In front and the lash making the fur fly tOIIl the victim Hut often It Is I mad to crack over the heod ot the dog DO a N I arn IngThe The eleven dogs are harnessed to tho front ot the sled each bv a set nrate thong of seal hid nil of different length fastened to a light canvas bar harEi ness The neatest dog was about IT feet from th < plot and the lender with fclf 1h Ib g IW eih ells I on her about BO feet the thongi thus Increasing the length by about 3 feet When the going Is I good the dogs spread out like the lingers ot a hand but when the snow N I deep they fall Into I each other tracks In almost mill tie file As they eontlnualls cross and Ice re Pat each other t the thongs get groduoll Plaited rainiest up 10 the learmost dog when a halt li I called flip dogs tire modo 10 lie down IInri the driver carefully disentangles them taking care that no dog gets away meanwhile Thy are guided by the voice using husks that Is 1 I ski mo words Okw po to the right rrah to the left and holl Irlcht on not often ono or the men mut run attend on snowshoes for the dogs to follow him |
