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Miss Elizabeth Puscol at the Craft Shop at lnuvik. Dogs THERE ARE DOGS and mOre dogs through- Out the North. They have been a necessary means of travelling for trappers. explorers and people who live there. They are maybe being nosed out somewhat by motor toboggans and skidoos for overland. I will remember forever the beautiful St. Bernard dogs at Stringer Hall Hostel at Inuvik; the alert. friendly or sometimes not so friendly Alaskan huskies in the settlements. This year I saw Siberian huskies with one eye one color. the other eye a different color. At Old Crow 1 was called out to see a pack dog with a siz- able bundle strapped to its back going along the trail. Recently I have followed with keen interest in the White Horse Star the report of “The Sourdough Rendezvous“ at White Horse, with Stephen Frost. Old Crow. moshing eleven dogs at Alaska races. His dogs were not successful but he was awarded a trophy for the most sportsmanlike Musher, The Star added that Alaskans know a gentleman when they see one. The Alaskan race, twenty and a half miles on each of three days, it seems, is strictly a racâ€" ing dog affair; whereas. the Yukon races are for working teams. and Stephen‘s dogs are working dog teams. Three Old Crow teams were flown in. with Stephen‘s team being sponâ€" sored by Great Northern Airways. At Fort Good Hope we stayed with Mr. and Mrs. Kostelnik. Regional Administrator and their lively family. We had a most delightful evening hearing about life in the North and viewing marvellous movies of winter trips. Here was a person knowledgeable and underâ€" standing about the ways of dogs and trappers in his area. 24 Pointing to a somewhat small hense that was being built nearby. he intimated that it probably should have been larger but that \\ o. apparently what he wanted and so it was wl. ‘l he should have. He had a number of Siberian huskics. I'- was. I should say. a dog specialist. Other callers that evening were two cm. geous (so it seemed to me) women. one fr. Ottawa and one from Norway. who were tr.. elling in a double kayak on the Mackeml They were capable. experienced travellers wt appeared to take their venturesome trip l granted. However. one realized that they m wise. experienced. well prepared and brief regarding their journey and nothing was tak- for granted. Taking off from Hay River J- let they arrived in lnuvik August 23. t 'k * Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when its alteration finds Or bends with the remover to remove; Oh. no! it is art ever-fixed mark That looks on tentpests and is never shaken. Shakespeareâ€"Sonnet 116 i i i There are no idle words where children are, Thoughts spoken in their hearing carry far. Producing fruit for evil or for good In our great future human brotherhood. The word dropped lightly from our thoughtless Iips. Into the fertile child-mind seeps and drips And intertwines with thoughts and feeling so It may decide the course in which some soul may go; 50 speak not thoughtlessly when they are by, Your words fail not on sterile ears or dry. Thoughts sown in plastic minds are carried far There are no idle words where children are. * * t A Beluga Whale being cut up tar meat at Tukloyoilu “u. | _ p t3 we), HOME AND COUNTRY