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Scott himself led Snippets on the trek toward the Pole, although his care was eventually turned over to Oates. Scott was not an experienced horseman, but he did appreciate the character of his charges, as he wrote on November 29: “Snippets and Nobby now walk by themselves, following in the tracks well. Both have a continually cunning eye on their driver, ready to stop the moment he pauses. They eat snow every few minutes. It’s a relief not having to lead an animal; such trifles annoy one on these marches, the animal’s vagaries, his everlasting attempts to eat his head rope... Yet all these animals are very full of character. Some day I must write of them and their individualities.”