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By the next day all the igloos in the village were in use, and when night came their windows shone with the light of the lamps, just as they had so many months before. Nip and Tup slept outside with Tooky now, in a snow house which Kesshoo had built for them. Menie and Monnie missed them, but Koolee said, "You are getting so big now you must begin to do something besides play with puppies.
Tooky was crouching in the snow in front of the tunnel, trying to fight off the other two dogs and guard the meat at the same time. She wasn't doing a thing with her tail, but she was very busy with all the rest of her. Her tail was pointed right toward the tunnel. The moment she saw it Koolee seized the tail with both hands and jerked it like everything! Tooky was so surprised she yelped.
"Cooky!" echoes Sheila, pounding on the kitchen table with the rescued basting spoon. "You can't have cookies before dinner. They're bad for your insides." "Can too," disputes Hans. "Fwieda dives us tookies. Want tooky!" wailingly. "Please, ple-e-e-ease, Auntie Dawnie dearie," wheedles Sheila, wriggling her soft little fingers in my hand.
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!
This encouragement of the child-mind in its attempts to speak is so important that it is worth while to give some simple examples of what is meant, in order that the point may be clearly understood. Let us take, first, the example of a mother who, from some cause, allows herself to be of a nervous and irritable disposition. The small child may say, "Mam ma, I want a tooky."
They ran away up the beach with Tooky and the other dogs the moment they were out of the boats. They did not stay with the twins all the time now, as they used to do. The twins were much bigger, too. Koolee looked at them as they helped her carry the tent-skins up from the beach, and said to them, "My goodness, I must make my needles fly!
"There's plenty of time!" They unbound the traces from Menie and Koko and hitched the dogs to the body of the reindeer. Then they all started back to the village with Koko's father driving the dogs. Soon the fog lifted and the sky grew clear. Monnie was playing with her doll in the igloo, when she heard Tooky bark. She knew it was Tooky at once.
"Can't you wait until dinner time? Such a grand dinner!" Sheila and Hans roll their eyes to convey to me that, were they to wait until dinner for sustenance we should find but their lifeless forms. "Well then, Auntie will get a nice piece of bread and butter for each of you." "Don't want bread an' butty!" shrieks Hans. "Want tooky!"
They worked so hard they were warm as toast, though it was as cold as our coldest winter weather; and when it was all finished Menie ran clear over it just to show how strong and well built it was. When the snow house was all ready, Menie called the three big dogs. Tooky was the leader, and the three dogs together were Kesshoo's sledge team. Tooky was a hunting dog too.
The child repeats, "I want a tooky," and in all probability gets the further inquiry, "You want a TOOKY what's that?" which undermines the child's confidence in himself and in his ability to talk. On the other hand, the mother who understands the needs of the child from a speech-forming standpoint will not insist on the child repeating the word time after time as if it was not understood.
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