Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-06-20
OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
A MOCK PeLAR-BEAR HUNT.


The mock polar-bear hunt is favorlte
game among the Esquimau boys. i few
lines will describe it, One OF the boys OF
the village gets a polar-bear robe, and
wrapping it around him after he is out
among the ice-hummocks about the vii
lage, he comes crawling along some sledge-
path near the igloos, when he is discovered
BY the dogs and surrounded. This is likely
to be very rough sport; for the boys take
their spears and jab away at their brother
in the bear robe, until you would think
they would break some of his ribs; while
the dogs, emboldened by these supposed
brave advances, oftentimes take bites OF fur
from the dangling edges of the robe. The
mock bear rears up on his hind feet and
growls in a very feroclous manner, until.
worn out at last with his hard work and
with having his head SO tightly covered up
with a heavy robe he finally falls over at
some thrust of a spear and pretends TO ex-
pire. But the next moment he crawls out
from the robe, much to the disgust Of the
dogs, with their hopes of q fine meal of
bear flesh.
HOW THE MONKEYS TgIcKED THE BEES.
Two monkeys sat under tree in an
Indian forest. One monkey was seen to
busy himself sInearing the other with red
clay earth, When he had succeeded i'll
entirely covering mis- companion, he disap-
reared into a neighboring wood, leaving
the other a mass of clay, but for two small
holes through which peered pair OF cum
ming eyes Then the bedaubed monkey
was seen to climb to the hollow of q tree
where there was a beehive. The bees
buzzed about the intruder, but all they
could do was to leave their stings in his
CLAY coat At length they swarned away
in despair, and the clever monkey helped
himself to the honeycomb Then the
other monkey came out of his hiding-place
and proceeded to pick off the clay covering
from his brother. This done they set to
work at the honeycomb and finished 1t.
QUEER KIND OF CANDY.
1t would seem very strange, and perhaps
not very pleasant, to my young readers to
hear tallow candle or the shin-bone Of q
reindeer called candy. And yet these
things may really be considered as Esqui-
mau candy because they would delight
the children of the cold in precisely the
way that box of bOnbons would delight
you. There is certain kind of water
fowl in arctic countries known as the dove
kie. It is about the size OF duck, Is quito
black, has a prominent white stripe Oh its
wings, and its webbed feet are of brill
ldIt Eel. w IltIl oltLtl5 III IONS O!i ttit
edge of greenish rock these little red feet
are very conspicuous. Sometimes, when
the men have killed number of dovekies,
the Esquimau women cut off the bright
red feet, draw out the bones, and, blowing
into the skins, distend them as much as
possible, so as to form pouches. When
these pouches are thoroughly dried they
are filed with reindeer tallow, and
the bright red packages, which, | assure
you, look much nicer than they
taste, are little Boreas' candy. In very
cold weather the Esquimaux children eat
great quantities of fat and blubber; and
this fatty food, which seems to us so unin-
viting, helps to keep them warm and well.
The only other kind of candy that the
Esquimaux children have is the marrow
from the long leg or shin bone of the
slaughtered reindeer OF this also they
are very fond Whenever a reindeer is
killed and the meat has been stripped from
the bones of the legs these bones are
placed on the floor of the igloo and cracked
with a Ratchet until the marrow is ex-
posed. The bones are then forced apart
with the hands and the marrow is dug out
of the ends with long, sharp and narrow
spoon made from walrus tuSk. L have
eaten this reindeer marrow frozen and
cooked, and after one becomes accustomed
to eating frozen meat raw it is really an
acceptable tidbit; while cooked and nicely
served it would be a delicacy anywhere
Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka, in st.
Nicholas.