a single rope no two ropes were of the same length while the difference in length between any two was at least that of a dog s body every rope was brought to a ring at the front end of the the itself was w being a bark with forward end to keep it from under the snow this construction enabled the weight of the and load to be distributed over the largest snow surface for the snow was crystal powder and very soft observing the same principle of distribution of weight the dogs at the ends of their ropes fan fashion from the nose of the so that no dog trod in another s footsteps there was another virtue in the the ropes of varying length prevented the dogs attacking from the rear those that ran in front of them a dog to attack another it would have to turn upon one at a shorter rope in which ease it would find itself face to face with the dog attacked and also it would find itself facing the whip of the driven but the most peculiar virtue of all lay in the fact that the dog that strove to attack one in front of him must pull the white and that the faster the the faster could the dog attacked away thus the dog behind could never catch up with the in front the faster he ran the faster ran the one he was after and the faster ran all the dogs incidentally the went faster and thus by cunning did man increase his mastery over the beasts ah resembled his father much of whose gray wisdom he possessed in the past he had observed lip lip s persecution of white but at that time lip was another man s dog and had never dared more than to shy an occasional stone at him but now lip lip was his dog and he proceeded to his vengeance on him by putting him at the end of the longest rope this made lip lip the leader and was apparently an honor but in reality it took away from him all honor and instead of being bully and master of the pack he now found himself hated and persecuted by tlie pack because he ran at the end of the longest rope the dogs had always the view of him running away before them all that they saw of him was his tail and hind legs � a view far less ferocious and than his mane and gleaming also dogs being so constituted in their mental ways the sight of him away gave desire to run after him and a feeling that he ran away from them the the the started the team took after lip in a chase that extended the day a l first be had been prone to turn upon his jealous of his dignity and but at such times would throw the h of the whip into his face and compel him to turn tail and run on lip lip might face the pack but he could not face that whip and all that was left him to do was to keep his long rope and his ahead of the teeth of his mates but a still greater cunning in the recesses of the indian mind to give point to pursuit of the leader favored him over the other dogs these aroused in them jealousy and hatred in their presence would give him meat and would give it to him only this was to them they would rage around just outside the wing distance of the whip while lip lip devoured the meat and hit protected him and when there was no meat to give would keep the team at a distance and make believe to give meat to lip lip white took kindly to the work he had travelled a greater distance than the other dogs ii the yielding of himself to the rule of the gods and he had learned more thoroughly the of opposing their wilt in addition the persecution he had suffered from the pack had made the pack less to him white in the scheme of and man more he had not learned to be dependent on his kind for companion ship besides was well nigh forgotten and the chief outlet of expression that remained to him was in the he the gods he had accepted as masters so he worked hard learned and was obedient and ed his toil these are essential traits of the wolf and the wild dog they have become and these traits white possessed in unusual measure a companionship did exist between white and the other dogs but it was one of warfare and enmity he had never learned to play with them he knew only how to fight and light with them he did returning to them a hundred fold the and they had given him in the days when lip was leader of the pack but lip lip was no longer leader � except when he fled away before his mates at the end of his rope the bounding along behind in camp he kept close to or gray or he did not dare venture away from the gods for now the of all dog were against him and he tasted to the the persecution that had been white s with the overthrow of lip lip white could have become leader of the pack but he was too and solitary for that he the his team mates otherwise he ignored them they got out of his way w hen he came along nor did the of them ever dare to rob him of his meat on the contrary they devoured their own meat hurriedly for fear that he would take it away from them white knew the law well to the weak and obey ike strong he ate his share of meat as rapidly as 