. St. Nicholas [serial] . A PATIENT BEAST OK BURDEN. the civilized world the donkey and the mule more than forty years ago, the dog was very are accepted as the best, the most patient, and largely used by the ragmen and traveling ped- the most tireless of all the beasts of burden, dlers of New York. Every morning the little Although vicious when ill treated, yet the don- wagons, some with two and some with four 628 QUEER CARRIERS. 629 wheels, would come down the street, drawn by The dog of the Eskimo, as the explorersone or two dogs, and guided sometimes by a have all told us, is, of course, t
. St. Nicholas [serial] . A PATIENT BEAST OK BURDEN. the civilized world the donkey and the mule more than forty years ago, the dog was very are accepted as the best, the most patient, and largely used by the ragmen and traveling ped- the most tireless of all the beasts of burden, dlers of New York. Every morning the little Although vicious when ill treated, yet the don- wagons, some with two and some with four 628 QUEER CARRIERS. 629 wheels, would come down the street, drawn by The dog of the Eskimo, as the explorersone or two dogs, and guided sometimes by a have all told us, is, of course, the swiftest andwoman and sometimes by boys. This use of dogs came, without doubt, from. A BELGIAN DOG-CART. Holland and Belgium, where the dog has beenin service as a beast of burden for many almost every Dutch or Flemish city thesedog-carts—not the stylish vehicle of thatname which we meet in the park or on theavenue, but literally carts drawn by dogs—maybe seen. It is usually a four-wheeled affair,and holds as much as a porters hand-cart;not infrequently the dogs helper, on the otherside of the pole, is a stout boy or girl. In the Dutch dog-carts the dog is securelyharnessed in—and so, indeed, is the boy whenhe is at the pole. The huckster-women whoown or drive the dog-carts generally live insome of the little villages on the outskirts ofthe large Dutch or Belgian towns, and bringtheir farm produce for sale in the city streets. On pleasant days, many of these little wagonsmay be seen on city corners, their wares offeredfor sale by the shrewd driver, while the dogs,with harness partly loosened, He asleep at theroadside or beneath the body of the cart. If
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