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Updated: May 29, 2025
He was trained to respond to shouted directions, turning to the right when "ouk" was called, or left for "rudder," the word being repeated several times by the driver in rapid succession. When it was desired that the dogs should stop, "ah" was the order, and when they were to go forward "ooisht," or "oksuit." The other dogs followed Tinker as a pack of wolves follows the leader.
Everything seemed frozen stiff and dead except ourselves. No sound broke the absolute silence save the crunch, crunch, crunch of our feet, the squeak of the komatik runners complaining as they slid reluctantly over the snow, and the "oo-isht-oo-isht, oksuit, oksuit" of the drivers, constantly urging the dogs to greater effort.
"Let's take a chance at it," said Charley. "This wind can't move the ice, and we can get across before it gets blowing much harder." "Ooisht!" called Toby, breaking the komatik loose, and away went the dogs. "Oksuit! Oksuit!" Toby kept calling to the dogs, snapping the whip over them and urging them ahead. "What's that?"
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