Page 33 - Jack's victory and other stories about dogs

CHAPTER IV.

BOW T H E T E A M S 'WERE A R R A N G E D ; A PROJECTED REVO LU ­
T IO N ; 1T0 W JA C K H A D E LOVE J ROW IT PROSPERED.

£ROM what lias been already said, it ■will be

seen that Jack's companions were quarrel­

some. They quarrelled over their food,
over their sleeping-places, and, indeed, whenever

there was the slightest provocation. Their fqod

was the flesh of the reindeer, the seal, and the
walrus. Their sleeping-place was on the snow

outside the ship, but some parts of it were better

protected than others, and there was often a fight

among them for a finusr corner.
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At first the fighting was general. But when I
arranged the dogs in teams they gradually got

used to each other, and came to look upon them­

selves as so many littfe knots or communities. In