The Eskimo twins
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: KOOLEE DIVIDES THE MEAT KOOLEE DIVIDES THE MEAT The first thing that was done after they got the sledge back to the village was to feed the dogs. The dogs were very hungry ; they had smelled the fresh meat fo...
MorePurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: KOOLEE DIVIDES THE MEAT KOOLEE DIVIDES THE MEAT The first thing that was done after they got the sledge back to the village was to feed the dogs. The dogs were very hungry ; they had smelled the fresh meat for a long time without so much as a bite of it, and they had had nothing to eat for two whole days. They jumped about and howled again and got their harnesses dreadfully tangled. Kesshoo unharnessed them and gave them some bones, and while they were crunching them and quarreling among themselves, Koolee crawled into the igloo and brought out a bowl. The bowl was made of a hol- lowed-out stone, and it had water in it. "This is for a charm," said Koolee. " If you each take a sip of water from thisbowl my son will always have good luck in spying bears ! " She passed the bowl around, and each person took a sip of the water. When Menie's turn came he took a big, big mouthful, because he wanted to be very brave, indeed, and find a bear every week. But he was in too much of a hurry. The water went down his "Sunday-throat" and choked him! He coughed and strangled and his face grew red. Koolee thumped him on the back. " That's a poor beginning for a great bear-hunter," she said. Everybody laughed at Menie. Menie hated to be laughed at. He went away and found Nip and Tup. They would n't laugh at him, he knew. He thought he liked dogs better than people anyway. Nip and Tup were trying to get their noses into the circle with the other dogs, but the big dogs snapped at them and drove them away, so Menie got some scraps and fed them. Meanwhile Koolee stood by the sledge and divided the meat among her neighbors. First she gave one of the hind legs to the wives of the Angakok, because he always had to have the best of everything. She gave the kidneys to Koko's mother...
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