The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-10-26
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BY RUDYARD KIPLLNGs.
rlopyright lssa by Irving Bachcller.l
CHAPTER /.

',IIe has opened his eyes. Look"
'.Put him in the skin again. He will
be a strong dog; on the fourth month
We will name him."
"Fox whom" said Amoraq.
Kadlu's eyes rolled round the skin
lined snow house till it came to a.
year-old Kotuko sitting on the Sleep
Sng bench making a button OF walrus
ivory. Name him for me-" said ko-
tuko, with a grin. II shall need him
some day."
Kadlu grinned back till his eyes
were almost buried In the fat of his fiat
cheeks, and nodded to Amoraq while
his puppy's fierce mother whined to
zee her baby wriggling far out of reach
in the little Sealskin pouch hung above
the warmth of the blubber lamp.
kotuko went on with his carving and
Kadlu threw a rolled bundle of leather
dog-harnesses dnto a tiny little room
that opened from one side of the house;
slipped off his heavy deerskin hunting
suit, put 1t into a whalebone net that
hung above another lamp and dropped
down on the sleeping bench to whtttle
vt a piece of frozen seal meat till
Amoraq, his wife, should bring the reg
ular dinner of boiled meat and blood
soup. He had been out since early
dawn at the seal holes, eight miles
away, on the ice at the edge of the foe,
and had come home with three big
seals. Half way down the long, low
snow passage or tunnel, that led to the
inner door of the house, you could hear
snappfngs and yelpings, as the dogs of
his sleigh team, released from their
days work, scufiled for warm places.
When the yelpings grew too loud.
Kotuko 1azily rolled off the sleeping
bench. and. picking up a dog whip with
an 1S-inoh handle of springy whalebone,
and twenty-five feet of heavy plated
thong, he dived into the passage where
1t sounded as though all the dogs were
eating him alive; but that was no more
than their regular grace before meals
When he crawled out of the far end of
the passage half a dozen furry heads
followed him with their eyes as he went
to short gallows of whale jaw bones,
from which the dogs meat was hung,
split off the frozen stuff in big Jumps
with broad-headed spear, and stood,
his whip in one hand and the meat in
the other. Each beast was called by
name-the weakest tirst-and woe be-
tide any dog that moved out of his turn,
for the taper;ng lash would shoot out
like thonged lightning and flick away
an inch or so or hair and hide. Zach
beast simply growled once, snapped
once, choked once over his portion, and
hurried back to the protection of the
snow passage, while the boy stood on
the snow under the blazing northern
lights and dealt out justice. The last to
be served was THE big black leader of
the team, who kept order when they
were harnessed, and to him Kotuko
gave a double allowance of meat, as
we'll as an extra crack,of the whip.
'Ah!' said Kotuko, coiling up the
lash, II have a little one over the lamp
that will make "a great many howlngs.
Sarpok! Get in!'
He crawled back over the huddled
dogs, busted the dry snow from his ,furs
with the whalebone beater that Amo-
RAG kept by the door: tapped the skim
lined roof of the house to shake off any
dcicles that might have fallen from the