She wasn't doing a thing with her tail, but she was very busy
with all the rest of her. Her tail was pointed right toward the
tunnel.

The moment she saw it Koolee seized the tail with both hands and
jerked it like everything! Tooky was so surprised she yelped. And
when she opened her mouth to yelp, of course she dropped the
meat.

Just at that instant Kesshoo's whip lash came singing about the
ears of all three dogs.

"Snap, snap," it went. They jumped to get out of the way of the
lash.

Then Koolee leaped forward and snatched the meat from under their
noses, and scuttled back with it into the tunnel before you could
say Jack Robinson.

It is dangerous to snatch meat away from hungry dogs. If Kesshoo
hadn't been slashing at them with his whip, and if Menie and Koko
hadn't been screaming at them with all their might, so the dogs
were nearly distracted, Koolee might have been badly bitten.

Just then Monnie came up with some dried fish. She threw one of
the fish over in front of the snow house.

The dogs saw it and leaped for it. Then she threw another into
the snow hut itself. They went after that. She fed them all with