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There was a piece of bear's meat lying on the bench. The dogs smelled the meat. They stuck their heads into the room, and when Koolee's back was turned, Tooky stole the meat! Just then Koolee turned around. She saw Tooky. She shrieked, "Oh, my meat, my meat!" and whacked Tooky across the nose with the snow stick! But Tooky was bound to have the meat.
She ran out of the tunnel with it in her mouth, just as Menie and Koko got round to the front of the igloo once more. "I-yi! I-yi!" they screamed, "Tooky's got the meat!" Kesshoo caught up his dog-whip and came running from the storehouse. The other two dogs wanted the meat too. They flew at Tooky and snarled and fought with her to get it. Then Koolee's head appeared in the tunnel hole!
When the twins awoke, the sun was shining as brightly as ever, and Nip and Tup were barking at them through the hole in the roof. Kesshoo and Koolee were gone! Menie and Monnie were frightened. They were afraid they were left behind. They sat up in bed and howled! In a moment Koolee's face looked down at them through the roof. "What's the matter?" she said.
Once during the winter the whole family went thirty miles up the coast by moonlight to visit Koolee's brother in another village. They went with the dog sledge, and it took them two days. They had meat and blubber with them and plenty of warm skins, and when they got tired, Kesshoo made a snow house for them to rest in. The twins thought this was the best fun of all.
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