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Updated: May 16, 2025
"And well do I know thou art a brave lad, but seek thou another maiden; thou dost not touch my heart, Papik, and thy fingers are very, very long." With native spontaneity, Papik laughed and turned shoreward. As he passed the assembled maidens he paused momentarily and greeted them. He made a brief proposal of marriage to Ahningnetty, a fat maiden, and was met with laughter.
In winter he is very hungry." "They say he frightens people to death when a baby which is fatherless screams." "And after he heats his ladles, the babies often die." Again the grating noise shuddered along the shore, and Ahningnetty, frightened, fled to her house. Papik, pursuing his way, accosted Ootah. As they were speaking they saw Otaq and his wife emerge from their house.
The girl was silent. "Methought thou wouldst be glad " "Thy dog is strong," the girl replied. "Dost thou love that dotard Attalaq?" "No," the maid replied. "He is clumsy as the musk ox." They turned, walking toward the igloo occupied by Ahningnetty and her aged father. "Wilt thou not be Papik's wife?" Papik pleaded. "My shelter is cold little meat have I. The white men robbed the tribe.
An excited crowd gathered outside of Attalaq's house. Soon Attalaq himself appeared. He was exultant. "Ha! Ha!" he laughed. "Methinks that is the way to treat a woman!" Then with swollen-up gusto he told them all about it. Tiring of being alone he determined to carry off Ahningnetty. "A woman's mind is as the wind it constantly changeth," he said. "Women should be driven as the dogs."
Ahningnetty, still weeping, still protesting, came to the door. Attalaq turned fiercely upon her and struck her in the face. Then he laughed again. The girl screamed. "Well," he said, turning to her. "I carried thee here if thou wouldst return thou canst walk back. Eh?" The girl cowered away, but on her face there was the semblance of a pleased expression.
The other women regarded her with a tinge of envy. "'Tis not often in these days a lover careth sufficiently to carry a maid away," said an aged crone. "In the days of old there were men like Attalaq," said a younger woman, admiringly. "Where is Papik?" one asked. He was not to be seen. "Dost thou not wish to return to thy father?" Annadoah asked Ahningnetty, approaching her.
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