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Updated: June 27, 2025
"Aren't these things a little outside their duties?" Edgar asked. The constable grinned. "Most anything that wants doing badly is right in our line." "Sure," said Grant. "It's not long since Flett went two hundred miles over the snow with a dog-team to settle a little difference between an Indian and his wife.
"There you are," he cried, "that's the whole darn official story. You best keep it awhile, and read it. I got orders to hand you all you need. Indians, dog-team, rations. Any old thing you fancy. But " he paused. His quick-moving eyes became suddenly still. They were gazing directly into those of the husband beyond the table. "You'll need to start out right away."
Smoke, with the dog-team, turned south. His quest was Surprise Lake and the mythical Two Cabins. His traverse was to cut the headwaters of the Indian River and cross the unknown region over the mountains to the Stewart River. Here, somewhere, rumour persisted, was Surprise Lake, surrounded by jagged mountains and glaciers, its bottom paved with raw gold.
Each knew the other existed; but their lives were apart as the Poles, and while they must have heard stray bits of news and were curious, they were never known to ask a question. And there would have been no trouble had not a free lance in the shape of the model-woman come into the land on the first ice, with a spanking dog-team and a cosmopolitan reputation.
And that was how the tobacco famine ended, and how the white men got their team. "Plus je connais les hommes, plus j'aime les chiens." It doesn't look hard to drive a dog-team, but just you try it.
I suppose you mean to take a horse up there?" "That's what I was thinking of," Hamilton admitted. "How would you get him up there? Take him in a dog-sled the preceding winter? You know a horse couldn't travel on the snow like a dog-team. And if you did get him up to the starting point during the winter, on what would you feed him? Dried salmon?
She had nearly one hundred ptarmigan, enough to last till the captain came home, and would not leave us again alone. Later: The captain returned from Nome, having made the trip of eighty-five miles and back by dog-team in four days and nights, a very quick trip indeed.
The Eskimo looked at the sailor doubtfully for a moment; but when action was necessary, he was a man of few words. Merely uttering the word "Come," he went out and harnessed his dog-team in a few minutes. Then, after wrapping the Kablunet carefully up in furs, he leaped on the fore-part of the sledge, cracked his whip, and went off at full speed.
A dog-team and a bois-brule bring them, and then I am alone as before. When all that is done I will come back." "And then, Pourcette?" said Shon. "Then I will hang that one skin over the chimney where his gun is and go out and kill more pumas. What else can one do? When I stop killing I shall be killed. A million pumas and their skins are not worth the life of my friend."
"Is that a beast or a human?" said he. "It's a man," the Boy decided after a moment "no, two men, single file, and yes Colonel, it's dogs. Hooray! a dog-team at last!" They had simultaneously dropped the lumber.
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