Page 31 - Jack's victory and other stories about dogs

oxen. If you want an ox to go to the right you

say “-lee;” if to the left, “ Whaw;” if to start,

“ G’lang;" if to stop, **Woah;“ and if they do not

obey you, you give them a gentle reminder with
the whip or goad

jtn like manner with a team of dogs, if you

want tbem to go' to the right you cry (< Huk,
jink;'* if to the left, “ Nu, nu” If you want them

to start yon cry ulva, ka;” if to stop, IfE 5gh, eigh;”

and, as with the oxen, if they will not do all

those things when you tell them to, then comes

the whip.
This whip is necessarily very long. The lash

is two feet longer than the traces of the dogs,

and being tipped with hard dry sinew, by way of

"cracker,” it tingles very sharply where it strikes.

But to handle it requires a very strong arm and
an accurate aim; for at eighteen feet distance,an

awkward hand with so long a lash, would hit the

wrong dog nine times out of ten, and thus make
a deal of confusion. A dog knows as well as a

man when lie is ’behaving himself and when he is

not, and he is no more able to see why he should