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 strained him. But now he felt that this restraint was gone, and he openly defied Wolf and hindered and balked him in the government of the team.

So it was a disorderly and rebellious dog team that sought their beds in the snow on that first night of the rule of. The Pig.

The following morning at harnessing up time Ginger was missing. Wolf finally routed him out of the snow where he had been trying to escape harnessing. This was an unheard—of thing in a sled dog. Usually the life in the traces is the greatest joy that the dog knows. He will run until he drops dead in his harness. Sled dogs have often died of a broken heart simply because they were unable to keep their places in the traces.

But not so Ginger, for he openly shirked and tried to evade his work.

Old Wolf fell upon him like a fury and punishing severely drove him whimpering to his place in the team.

Silversheene tried to defend Ginger, al-