The Adventures of Balto by Pat Chargot

Author:Pat Chargot
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Publication Consultants

Chapter Twelve

Does Anyone Want

Seven Brave Dogs?

With Kaasen gone, the dogs had no one to tell their story. With no story, our heroic huskies were, well, just seven cute but mute dogs. The theatrical agency that had booked them on their long Vaudeville tour was miffed. As far as it was concerned, it now had no act. The dogs didn't do any tricks, after all. And so many people already had seen them that their fame had dimmed; audiences wanted something new.

Who owned the dogs? Was it Seppala? Was it the theatrical agency? Was it Kaasen, who could have bought the dogs from Seppala with money from his earnings as a Vaudeville presenter? Was it Lesser, as one book on Seppala, written in 1930, claims? Lesser's son, Bud, who was alive when this book was written, insisted his father never owned the dogs. We may never know. What is known is that at some point after Kaasen left for Nome, the dogs were sold to a man named Sam Houston and ended up in a Los Angeles dime museum, one of the lowest forms of entertainment in the United States at that time — or ever.

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