few verses from the good Book were read
by Memotas, and then prayers were offered. Twice every day do these
godly Indians thus worship God. They are the converts of self-
sacrificing missionaries who, coming into these lands, amid the
privations and hardships incident to such lonely, solitary places, here
patiently toiled and laboured to win these natives from their degrading,
superstitious, abominable old religion to a knowledge of the one living
and true God. They have not toiled in vain, as the true, noble,
consistent lives of hundreds of their converts now bear witness.

The catching and harnessing of the dogs is a matter of pleasure or
trouble, just as the dogs have been trained. Dogs kindly treated, and
taught to obey, give no trouble, but with many, where their training was
defective, there is constant annoyance and worry. The boys had treated
their dogs so kindly that the cheery call was all that was needed. So
with all the trains of Mr Ross's except one. These were what might be
called a scratch train. They had been bought singly from different
parties. When in harness they were the equal of any, but the trouble
was to get them into their harness. One was a white animal. At the
first sound or movement in the camp, he would sometimes quickly sneak
away from where he had nested all night, and then lie down quietly in
the snow. So white and still was he that it was impossible for the
keenest eye to detect him in the early morning starlight. No calling
would bring him. He just lay there perfectly still, and buried enough
to be even with the snow around him. When he had one of these skulking
tricks on him the quickest way to find him was for several Indians to
begin tramping in ever-widening circles around the camp until they ran
on him. He would never run away, but his cunning trick was really more
provoking than if he did. He was at length broken of it by being
thoroughly blackened. Then, of course, he could be easily seen. This
so grieved and humiliated him that he never tried the trick again, even
after his beautiful white coat was cleaned for him, much to his great
joy.

Some dogs, as soon as they hear the bells jingling in the morning as
their drivers come for them, will skulk off into dark places in the
forests. There it is often difficult to find them. Then again some are
so wild that a rope at least sixty feet in length is tied to their necks
in the evening as they are unharnessed. B