WOMEN AND DOG TEAMS IN

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 31 March 1891, Page 4

WOMEN AND DOG TEAMS IN

pPtrw GERMANY. _ , i\, of dogs is an important factor T » E 1^ OUt '. " Germany. It has been a the labour 6x an / dogS| harnessed istimated that worne.. than a the railwa 3 ogether, do more haulm* f £ nd all other modes of conve*. nC : n °L o s2 nited. Hundreds of small carts I-.™ s ~* n very day on all the roads leading .. ' " rom Dresden, each having a dog harness. ■ or the "near horse," while the "off horse" s a woman, with her left hand grasping the va^gon tongue to give it direction, and the ight hand passed through a loop in the ope which is attached to the axle, and jrosses her shoulder thus harnessed, woman md dog trudge along together, pulling niraculous loads in all sorts of weather ?he vitality and indomitable endurance ot he German race are most forcibly illustrated >y these women workers, the descendants ot he matrons who bore the soldiers who ought under Arminius, and balric.d. ca P' urcd, and destroyed the Roman legionJ m he forests of Germany, and are themselves he mothers of the men who carried victory >n their bayonets from the fields of Gravaotte, Metz, and Sedan.