and the hunters slowly and filled themselves to the very brim with seal meat and the girl told their tale the two dogs sat between them and whenever their names came in they cocked an ear apiece and looked most thoroughly ashamed of themselves a dog who has once gone mad and recovered the say is safe against all further attacks so the did not forget us said the storm blew the ice broke and the seal swam in behind the fish that were frightened by the storm now the new seal holes are not two days distant let the good hunters go to morrow and bring back the seal i have � twenty five seal buried in their ice when we have eaten those we will all follow the seal on the what do you do said the village in the same sort of voice as he used to richest of the looked at the girl from the north and said quietly we build a house he pointed to the north west side of s house for that is the side on which the married son or daughter always lives the girl turned her hands palm upward with a little despairing shake of her head she was a foreigner picked up starving and she could bring nothing to house keeping jumped from the bench where she sat and began to sweep things into the girl s lap � iron skin tin deer skins embroidered with ox teeth and real such as sailors use � the finest ever given on the far edge of the circle and the girl from the north bowed her head down to the very floor also these said laughing and to the dogs who thrust their cold into the face ah said the with an important cough as though he had been thinking it all over as soon as left the village i went to the singing the second book house and sang magic i sang all the long nights and called upon the spirit of the my singing made the gale blow that broke the ice and drew the two dogs towards when the ice would have crushed his bones my song drew the seal in behind the broken ice my body lay still in the but my spirit ran about on the ice and guided and the dogs in all the things they did did it everybody was full and sleepy so no one contradicted and the helped himself to yet another lump of boiled meat and lay down to sleep with the others in the warm well lighted oil smelling home � � � now who drew very well in the style pictures of all these adventures on a long flat piece of ivory with a hole at one end when he and the girl went north to land in the year of the wonderful open winter he left the picture story with who lost it in the when his dog broke down one summer on the beach of lake at and there a lake found it next spring and sold it to a man at who was on a sound and he sold it to who was afterwards a on board a big steamer that took to the north cape in when the season was over the steamer ran between london and stopping at and there sold the ivory to a for two imitation i found it under some rubbish in a house at and have translated it from one end to the other is a very free translation of the song of the returning hunter as the men used to sing it after seal the always repeat things over and over again our gloves are stiff with the frozen blood our with the drifted snow as we come in with the seal � the seal in from the edge of the au and the dog go and the long crack and the men come back back from the edge of the we the seal to his secret place we heard him scratch below th� second book io the second book we made our mark and we watched beside out on the edge of the we raised our lance when he rose to breathe we drove it downward � so and we played him thus and we killed him thus out on the edge of the our gloves are with the frozen blood our eyes with the drifting snow but we come back to our wives again back from the edge of the and the dog go and the wives can hear their men come hack back from the edge of the red dog for our and our excellent nights � for the nights of swift running fair far seeing good hunting sure cunning for the smells of the dawning ere dew has departed for the rush through the mist and the started for the cry of our mates when the has wheeled and is standing at bay for the risk and the riot of night for the sleep at the mouth by day � it is met and we go to the fight bay o bay it was after the letting in of the that the part of s life began he had the good conscience that comes from paying a just debt and all the was his friend for all the was afraid of him the things that he did and saw and heard when he was wandering from one people to another with or without his four companions would make many many stories each as long as this one so you will never be told how he met and escaped from the mad elephant of who killed two and twenty drawing eleven carts of silver to the government treasury and l the second book scattered the shiny in the dust how he fought the all one long night in the of the north and broke his knife on 