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Updated: May 15, 2025
Just at this crisis an accident occurred to Pouchskin or rather Pouchskin committed a mistake which, had it been made five minutes sooner, would most assuredly have cost him his life. The mistake which Pouchskin made, was to drop the iron end of his "oschtol" on the snowy crust between his sledge and the two dogs nearest to it the "wheelers" as we may call them.
A curved stick, called the oschtol with an iron point, and little bells at the other end is used to direct the dogs; and, urged on by this and by well-known exclamations of their driver, they will go at a speed of many miles an hour.
It was now a trial of speed between bears and sledge-dogs for the latter knew that they were in as much danger as their masters; and needed neither the exclamation Ah! nor the oschtol to urge them forward. On swept they over the frozen crust, as fast as they could go handling their limbs and claws with the nimbleness peculiar to their race.
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