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She decorated her room in her own fashion, with a crude, somewhat exaggerated, yet graceful, taste. She hung round in symmetrical order the skins and cloth hangings, brightly embroidered with red and blue cocks and reindeers.
One giant punch-bowl of gilt enamel is claimed to be the finest thing of the kind ever done in the Empire. Their bronzes are wonderful there is vigor and life in 'em. A Laplander in his sledge, drawn by reindeers over the frozen sea, and a dromedary and his driver on the sandy desert, shows plain how fur the Zar's dominions extend.
Ah! if you said reindeers or musk-oxen it would be a different thing." "But it appears those, too, are found in troops in Melville Island," replied the doctor; "that is much further south, I grant you; when Parry wintered there he always had as much game as he wanted." "We are not so well off," said Bell; "if we could only get plenty of bear's flesh I should not complain."
"I'll try to, Baby," said Santa Claus as he went toward the stable. "Gee, Dot, we never thought to peep in the stable and see his reindeers and sleigh," whispered Don. Mrs. Starr suspected what Don had said, however, and replied, "No, of course not! Do you suppose we want Santa to think we are such ill-bred people as to be curious? Let the dear old man depart in peace."
It was to have been one long experience of travel by day and night, by sea and land, and of adventure with strange and wild creatures Vikings, wolves, reindeers, Valkyries, giants, ice-mountains, and caves, fairies and fairies' homes.
Then, going from one to the other, the old woman, who seemed strangely agitated as she saw so many white faces, poured out the reindeers' milk, which made a welcome drink. "They are treating us better than I thought they would," remarked Andy. "Maybe we will not be so badly off as I feared." Suddenly, from the midst of the circle of natives, a voice arose.
There had been a violent storm of wind and snow the previous night, after which the mercury rose to 16° above zero. We waited until noon before our reindeers could be collected, and then set off, with the kind farewell wishes of the four Norwegian inhabitants of the place. I confess to a feeling of relief when we turned our faces southward, and commenced our return to daylight.
A few herbs, a few mosses, such as grow on isolated rocks like this. I assure you it is very amusing to see a herd of twenty or thirty chamois cross at a headlong pace a vast field of snow, or glacier, where they bound over the crevasses in play. "One would say they were reindeers in a Lapland scene. It is only at night that they come down into the valleys.
The still air whistled through the reindeers' horns; so fast they went that the trees and the hanging gardens and the palace walls melted away from view like wreaths of smoke. Sky and sea became one magic sapphire drawing them in towards the centre of its life, to the heart of the blue moon itself.
Paul on business, more than a week's journey in itself, was commissioned to purchase the supplies and Christmas gifts for the celebration, and returned in a sleigh from Bisbee's Corners, reaching the Overland camp by way of a new trail that his men had cut. He was a regular Santa Claus, except that he rode "behind mules instead of reindeers," as Emma Dean expressed it.
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