The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-10-26

took hands aud smiled, for the clear
full roar oil the surge among the leo
reminded them OF salmon and reindeer
time aud the smell Of bl0aSoming ground
willows. Even as they looked tho sea
began to skim over betwean the ilopt-
ing cakes OF leo, 30 intense was the cold,
but on the horizon there was vast rod
glare that was tho light OF tho sun ken
sun. II was more like hearing him
yawn in his sleep than seeing him rlIe,
aud the glare only listed for an hour or
two, hut IL marked the turn OF the year.
Nothing, thoy felt, could alter that
Kotuko found tia dogi fighting over
fresh.killad seal who was following tho
fish that gale always disturbS, He
was the frat OF some twenty or thirty
seal that landed on tho island In the
Courso Of q day, and, TIL the sea irozo
hard, there were hundreds oil keen
black heads rejoicing in the shallow
fres water and floating about with the
floating ics
1t was good to cat seal.livor again to
Ill tho lamps rookleSaly with blubbar
and watch the flame blaze three feet In
tho air, but ai soon as tho now Ioa leo
bora Koluko aud the girl loaded tue
hand.Bleigh aud made the two dogl pull
~ they had never pulled before in their
liy5I, Tor thoy feared what might have
happened in their village. The weather,
OF course, was AZ pitiless as usual, but
1t is easier 10 draw u sleigh loaded with
good food than to hunt starving, They
lei. 1--WE and twenty neal carcRssea buried
In ice OF the beach already for Dse aud
hurried back to their people. Tho dogs
showed them the way ~ su1n aS kotuko
told them what WAS expected, and
though there wac no sign OF Il land
mark, in two days they wero giving
tongue outside Radius house. Only
three dogi answered them; the others
had heea eaten; and tho houses were
all dark. But when kotuEo shouted:
"Oiow boiled meat weak voices an
swcrGd. and when no called the call oil
tho village name by name, worry dis
tinc,ly, there were no gaps in 1t.
IN hour later the lamps bIazed in
Kadlu'a house, snow water was melt
ing, the pots were beginning to sumner
aud the snow was drifting from the roof
A. Amoraq made ready n meal for Nil
the village, and the boy baby in tho
hood chowsi at u strip Of rich, nuity
blubber, aud the hunters slowly and
mathodically filed themselves TO the
very brim with seal.meaI. KotukO aud
the girl told their tale. The two dogs
sat between thOm, aud whenever their
names came IN they cooked m ear
apiece aud looked mos. thoroughly
ashamed OF themselves. A dog who had
once gone mad, the lnuit cay. is safe
against all altackL y.
$50 tho tornaq did not forget u.s."
said Kotuko. Tho storm blew, the ice
broke and the seal swan in behind the
ish that were frightened by the storm.
Now tho new seal holes are not two
days distant. Let the good hunters go
tomorrow and bring back the seal |
have spearel-tWenty-iyu seal buried
in the ice Whom we have eaten those
We will all follow the seal on the Hoe"
"What do you do?' said the angeKok,
the sorcerOr, in the same sort OF voice
as no used to kadlu, the richest oil the
Tnnunirmiut,
Kadlu looked at the girl from tho
north aud said quietly; 1--WE build a
house, lIo pointed to tho northwest
side OF Radius house for that 10 the side
on which the married sou or daughter
always lives.
Tho girl turned her hands palm up.
wards with little despRiring shake OF
her head. She was foreigner, picked
up starving and she could bring moth.
ing to tho housekeeping.
Amoraq jumped from the bench
whore she sat aud began to sweep
things into the girls lap--stone.lamps,
iron.skin acrapcrs, tin kettles, deerskins
embroidered with musk.ox teeth aud
real canvas needles such as sailors use
tho finest dowry that has ever been
given on the far edge Of tho Arctic cir.
Gle, and the girl iron tho north bowed
her head down TO the very Hoor
"Also those said koiuko, laughing
and singing to tho dogs, who thrust
their cold muzzles into the girls face
"Ah," tho angekok, with an impor.
tant cough, as though lie had been
thinking il over. AS soon as kotuko
left the village, went to the singing.
house aud sang magic; | gang all tho
long nights and called upon the spirits
OF the reindeer. My singing made tho
gallo blow that broke the ice and drew
the two dogs toward Koluko wien tho
Ice would have crushed his bones. My
song drsw the seal IN behind tho broken
ice. My body lay still in tho quaggI, but
my spirit ran about on the ice aud
guided kulnso and tho dogs in all the
Things they did. did II"
Everybody was very fail and sleepy
So no one contradiclcd; aud tho Angq.
kuk hcIpol himself to yet another
lump OF boiled meat aud lay down 70
sleep with tho olharS, In tho warm,
well.lirhtsd, olI.GmelIing house.
Now Ko;uko, who drew very well in
tho lnult way, scratched pictures oil
all these adventures On long fiat
piece OF ivory with llolo at one end
" hen ho aud the girl went north TO
Eliosm0re land In tho year Of tho won.
dsfrl open winter hn left tho picture.
story with KadIu, WHO lost it in tho
ahinglO when his dog.sleigh broke
down one summer on tho beach Of Lake
Modelling at NtkcsiriHg, and there q
lakO lnuiL found II next spring aud sold
II to man ut lmigen, who was intor.
prctor on Cumberland sound whhler,
aud no sold It TO Hans Olsen, who was
sailor on board q big steamer that took
tourists TO the North cape In Norway
" hen the tourists season wac over tho
steamer ran between London and Aus.
t'alin, stopping at Coylon, aud ;horo