110 SNOW AND SLEIGH RIDES.

 

them all over again. When the road.
is level and pretty smoothly worn, eight
or ten dogs, with a weight of Six Or
seven hundred pounds in the sledge,
can run away with their load, if they
choose. They make nothing of soing
ten miles an hour with a load no heav-
ier than that.

These Indians, by the way, set a
great store by their dogs. And well
they may; for the dogs are very valua-
ble to them. They are a shrewd set of
dogs. I will not say that they know
as much as their masters; but I will
say that they are about as neat and -