The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-11-03

sleigh and made the two dogs nun a. 4bss
had never pulled before IN their Ives ~
they feared what might have happened II
their village. The weather OF course was
as pitiless as usual, but 1t is easier 10 draw
sleigh loaded with good food Than /,
hunt starving. They left five and twenty
seal careasses buried in the ice or Ia
beach already for use and hurried baes
TO their people. The dogs showed them
the way as soon as Kotuko todd them
what was expected, and though there was
no sign OF a landmark in two DAYS thsy
were giving tongue outside kadlus house
Only three dogs answered them; tile atA.
ers had been eaten; and the houses were
all dark. But when Kotuko shouted.
"Ojo9' Cooled meat weak voices answer.
ed, and when he called the can Of the vi.
lage by name, very distinctly, there wers
no gaps in il.
An hour later the lamps hlazed in Kai.
lu's house, snow water was melting, The
pots were beginning 10 simmer and ire
snow was drifting from the roof IS Ana-
raq made ready a meal f1r all the village,
and the boy baby in the hood chewed At
a strip OF rich nutty blubber ana the holt-
ers slowly and methodically filled them
selves to the very brim with sea-meat
Kotuko and the girl told their tale The
two dogs sat between them, and when
ever their names came In they cooked an
ear apiece and looked most thoroughly
ashamed Of themselves. A dog who has
once gone mad the Inuit say is safe
against all attacks.
so the tornaq did not forget us" said
Kotuko. The storm blew; the Ice broke
and the seal swan in. behind the fish that
were frightened by the storm. Now the
new seal holes are not two days distant
Let the good hunters so tomorrow and
bring back the seal have spared-twenty-
five seal buried in the ice. When we have
eaten those we viii all follow the seal on
the foe"
What do you do?" said the Angekos,
the sorcerer. in the same sort Of voice Is
used 10 Kadlu, the richest OF the Iunu-
nirmiut.
kotuko looked at the girl from the north
and said quietly: I'VE build house Ne
pointed to the northwest side Of kadlus
house for that Is the side on which the
married son or daughter always lives.
The girl turned her hands palm upwards
with q little despairing shake OF her head.
She was a foreigner. picked up STARVING
and she could bring nothing 20 the mousse
keeping.
Amoraq jumped from the bench Whefe
she sat and began to sweep things INTO '1o
girls lap-stone lamps, iron skin scrapfls'
tin kettles deerskins embroiderea W.
musk-ox teeth and real canvas heeale.
such as sailors use-the finest doWfy tliae
has ever been given on the far edge q W
Arctic circle. and the girl from tne aV'''
bowed her head down to the very loof.
Also these" said Rotuko, laughins a. a.
singing 10 the dogs, who thrust theH s'''
muZzles into the girls face .~..
D. u . A u rarx
ant cough. as though ne had been 'hi = ~
il all over. CAS- soon as kotuko ley ~
village. l went to the singing holss -
sang magic: I sang all the long ~ ~,
called upon the spirits Of the reinass1' =. -
singing made the gale blow thar proks -
ice and drew the two dogs toward ~ y.
ko when the lee would have crisi,s e,,.s
homes. Nv song drew the seal % y, - = 80
the broken ice. Ny body lay Sun = 49,
auaggi. but my spirit ran apoui ~. n
ice ard guided Kotuko and the doss =
the things they did. I did IT. - n
Everybody was very fun ana sl.sa,ssak
no one contradlcted. and ihe a 60. n
helped himself 10 yet another iuas ss-a
boiled meat and lay down q 800 ".
the others. On the warm. "eii-hsnA
smelling house.
Now K1tu,,o. who drew very II
the Taa.t wav. scratched pictures y
these adventures on a long, raj - =!
ivory with q hole al ono end. Whs'' 81 n
the girl went north 10 EIlesnere, ar u
the year Of the wonderful open w ~. ube
1ar+ 10 r.irtr,-a-atrrv with KaalR' 80
7r.et A. 4, The single when his deg !,
broke down che summer On ne .Ssra
Lake Neteutnr. At NRseslring. ana Ia ,is il
lake mutt found Ii next soring ana -
te a man al Im.een. who vas 80 "a ~
On Cum crlan1 sound "halei. ..4lo~ oa
aaf8 In 10 Hans olsen. who was sA '.ist. %
5oars lag steamer thai took tourists o,,as !.
the ~rrth cane. tn Norway. w. ran
tourists eea=ou Yves over me assa a..ssnx Al
between London and AasifaiIa. 80. M. Iyfgv
Cerlca. ana there olsen sola ~ s.,.tatian
10 an Angaleae ieweler VINO 500 .asr sors
RUBBISH in hls house at colombo. aae ri no .
iIsns hip ] translated Il from enc -
the other.