Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-08-16
BLIZZARD.
A DOG RACE.
The Way a Winnipeg Boy GOT his
Early Start in Business
nv CHARLES L. SHAW.

BY CHARLES l.. SHAW
Copyright. 1896, by S. S. Mcclure 90
A boy in Winnipeg, the capitai GU! u
the province OF Manitoba in Northwest
ern Canada, who doesn't own dog Is
looked upon by his fellows with suspl-
cion. And a boy who owns dog ABOVE
the size OF a pug or fox terrier anu
doesn't train him 10 "go," as II is called,
In sleigh In the winter and small
sulky in tbs summer, Is considered as
being little better than girl. Like the
game Of lacrosse, the dog driving mas
come to the Canadian boys from the In
dams. In other days, before the settle
ment OF the western prairies OF Canada,
winter travel from Lake Superior TO
the Rocky Mountains and from Mime
sofa to the Arctic ocean was carried on
by means of dogs Even to-day in the
western parts OF the Canadian west.
the dog train is the regular means OF
conveyance OF mails and travellers b.:
the Hudson Bay Company and the fur
traders of the North Dog driving then,
comes naturally to the boys of Winni-
peg, where twenty-five years ago a win
ter Journey with horses was compare
lively unusual.
TOUCHE UPPER.
And 1t came particularly natural TO
little Touche Upper, newsboy and gen.
eral roustabout. For Touche loved
dogs, and a boy who didn't love a dog
very seldom amounted 10 much as a
dog trainer. Touches parents had died
and left him at ten years OF age to run
Z the race of life alone. Having no kith
| or kin of his own to lavish any affection
upon and being human and accordingly
| finding it necessary to have an outlet
| for his affections he became devoted TO
dog. And such dog. 1t was an
ugly, Unconditional looking cur every
| body said, but that didn't make any diff
| ference to Touche. He had found II as
| ne crouched one blizzardy night in the
doorway of the postoffice at the outset
of the newsboy life when he was in need
of sympathy as much as the little pup
that crawled upto him and licked his
hand. Were travelling in hard luck
tonight, puppy" said Touche as he
snuggled the shivering little thing I'M
Or his coat. This blizzard chased the
people from the streets and I'm stuck
with my papers and you're nearly froze
to death. Well, misery likes company,
so come on" And Blizzard, as he there
and then christened It, shared Touches
corner In the half-breed shack and the
ups and downs Of street Arabs life,
until he grew to doghood.
AS neither Blizzard nor Touche made
any pretenses to pedigree, there was a
fellow feeling between them. They were
both vagabonds. And when Touche re-
quested Blizzard to go in sleigh at
very early stage OF his career, he
didn't exactly see the drift of 1t until
Touche pointed out that every self-re-
speeding dog in Winnipeg went in for
1t and that it was not we'll to be "out OF
de push" Blizzard then strove to eX-
Gel at it. His long legs and lean body
placed him on equality in the sled with
the dogs which appeared at bench
shows and showed their aristocratC
teeth at him on the street.
Eyer better dog than any OF them,
Biz" said Touche as he embarrassed
him one night after Blizzard had borne
him from the center Of the city to the
little shack on the prairie. And well