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At first Alec was inclined to boast of a more successful day in reindeer hunting, but when he heard the whole story he was willing to admit that perhaps, after all, Frank's had been the nobler experience. Sam's characteristic comments were: "Man, but I would have liked to have had a crack at that great leader!
I do not know why, but I have an idea, somehow, that there are wolves around, and I expect to see them at any moment. At any rate it is better to be prepared for them." After my sleigh was attached as he had said, we resumed our journey, I, quietly seated in my sleigh, having no reindeer to drive, only using my stick as a rudder.
Without them it would be difficult, if not impossible, for the Laplanders to exist, and without them thousands of Norwegians would be poor indeed. It is a popular idea that, in the winter, reindeer draw the sleighs all over Norway.
So when Johnny said, "Let's go and try," he agreed, for if they once got there, Santa Claus, himself, might bring them back with him. For a moment they went along as though they were coasting down a hill, with the little North Star shining directly in front of them as they glided along. Just then Tommy said, "I wish the goats were reindeer. Let's pretend they are." "So do I," said Johnny.
There had been a hunt-breakfast that morning, and she well remembered the envy she had felt at seeing Lady Inez ride gaily forth with the rest on a favourite horse. "She has everything," thought Bella, "'Reindeer' was promised to me when he was a foal, and I have never been on his back." But Lady Inez was lying there, with the mark of "Reindeer's" iron hoof on her temple.
I knew by this that we were approaching the slope of a mountain. I was right. Next we came to the brink of a hill, and descended with a rapidity of at least twenty-five miles an hour. The animals simply flew. When my reindeer reached the bottom of the hill he made the usual sudden curve to the left to keep the sleigh, which had a tremendous momentum, from striking against his legs.
First of all he got Ward to wire and ask Bunny Langham to drive over about ten o'clock and fetch us all back, and then he asked four or five of the most comical people in the Burtington team to come to The Reindeer after dinner and help at a smoking concert.
"You run in, Kaviak, or you'll have no ears." But that gentleman pulled up his hood and stood his ground. "How did it get on the roof, in the name o' the nation?" asked the Colonel, stamping his feet. "Never hear of Santa Claus? Didn't I tell you, Kaviak, he drove his reindeer team over the roofs?" "Did you hear any dogs go by in the night?"
"Yes," said Erik, "when the moss is scanty or the swarms of mosquitoes too thick, the reindeer hurry off to some pleasanter spot, without stopping to ask permission.
Strong, "devoted to their masters, even though the masters are cruel to them. Reindeer can work all day without a mouthful to eat, living on one meal at night of seven pounds of corn-meal mush, with a pound or so of dried fish cooked into it. On long journeys they can live on dried fish and snow, and five dogs will haul four hundred pounds thirty-five miles a day.
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