-LRB- Go to the right -RRB- . `` Choiachoi ! Ja choiachoi ! '' -LRB- Go to the left -RRB- . `` Ohaha ! '' -LRB- Stop -RRB- . The puppy did not like it at all , but being fished for in this way was pure happiness beside being put to the sleigh for the first time . He just sat down on the snow , and played with the seal-hide trace that ran from his harness to the pitu , the big thong in the bows of the sleigh . Then the team started , and the puppy found the heavy ten-foot sleigh running up his back , and dragging him along the snow , while Kotuko laughed till the tears ran down his face . There followed days and days of the cruel whip that hisses like the wind over ice , and his companions all bit him because he did not know his work , and the harness chafed him , and he was dot allowed to sleep with Kotuko any more , but had to take the coldest place in the passage . It was a sad time for the puppy . The boy learned , too , as fast as the dog ; though a dog-sleigh is a heart-breaking thing to manage . Each beast is harnessed , the weakest nearest to the driver , by his own separate trace , which runs under his left fore-leg to the main thong , where it is fastened by a sort of button and loop which can be slipped by a turn of the wrist , thus freeing one dog at a time . This is very necessary , because young dogs often get the trace between their hind legs , where it cuts to the bone . And they one and all WILL go visiting their friends as they run , jumping in and out among the traces . Then they fight , and the result is more mixed than a wet fishing-line next morning . A great deal of trouble can be avoided by scientific use of the whip . Every Inuit boy prides himself as being a master of the long lash ; but it is easy to flick at a mark on the ground , and difficult to lean forward and catch a shirking dog just behind the shoulders when the sleigh is going at full speed . If you call one dog 's name for `` visiting , '' and accidentally lash another , the two will fight it out at once , and stop all the others . Again , if you travel with a companion and begin to talk , or by yourself and sing , the dogs will halt , turn round , and sit down to hear what you have to say .
Kotuko was run away from once or twice through forgetting to block the XXXXX when he stopped ; and he broke many lashings , and ruined a few thongs before he could be trusted with a full team of eight and the light sleigh .
Choiachoi Inuit Kotuko Ohaha days dog-sleigh fore-leg right seal-hide sleigh