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Updated: June 9, 2025
Menie and Monnie and Koko had such short legs they could not go very fast either, so they ran along with the Angakok, and Koko's mother, and Nip and Tup. When they reached the bear they found all the other people crowded around it. Each one stuck his fingers in the bear's blood and then sucked his fingers. This was because they wanted all bears to know how they longed to kill them.
Then he poked the reindeer with his fingers to see if it was fat and said to the men, "Which portion am I to have?" "Would you like the liver?" asked Kesshoo. He remembered about the bear's liver, you see. But the Angakok looked offended. "Who will have the stomach?" he said. "You know very well that the stomach is the best part of a reindeer."
The Angakok dropped his voice to a whisper. "However, when she looked upon me she trembled!" he said. "She saw at once that I possessed great power, and was a great Angakok. I spoke to her flattering words. Then I told her of the hunger of my children!" "I begged that she would send the seal and walrus and sea-birds to our coast at once. But she had no mind to yield to my requests.
The Angakok was the first one to help himself. He reached down and took a large chunk of meat. He held it up to his mouth and took hold of the end with his teeth. Then he sawed off a huge mouthful with his knife. It looked as if he would surely cut off the end of his nose too, but he didn't. When the men had all helped themselves, pieces of meat were handed out to the women and children.
The twins crept into the farthest corner of the sleeping bench and watched their father and mother and the Angakok, with their eyes almost popping out of their heads. Nip and Tup thought they would help a little, so they jumped off the bench; and barked at the Angakok. You see, they didn't know he was a great medicine man. They thought maybe he ought not to be there at all.
He squirmed and wriggled and twisted, until his face was very red and he looked as if he would burst, but there he stayed. Other people had crawled into the tunnel after him. His two wives were just behind. Everybody got stuck, of course, because no one could move until the Angakok did. He was just like a cork in the neck of a bottle.
Kesshoo and Koolee and the twins and Nip and Tup were all in the igloo. When they saw the Angakok's face come through the hole they thought, of course, the rest of him would come too. But it didn't, and the Angakok was mad about it. "Why don't they build igloos the way they used to?" he growled. "Every year the tunnels get smaller and smaller! Am I to remain here forever?" he went on.
The Angakok seemed very much pleased with himself, and he looked about, as if he expected every one else to be pleased with him too. All the people were filled with wonder at his great power. They began to talk among themselves. "Yes, I remember the famine well," said Koko's father. "I was away up the coast that season. Several died in our village for lack of food."
When they were quite near the village again, they met the Angakok. He had been trying to catch up with them and he was out of breath from running. He looked at them sternly. "Why didn't you call me?" he panted. His wives looked frightened and didn't say a word. Nobody else said anything. The Angakok glared at them all for a moment.
Kesshoo's house was so small that it seemed as if all the people could not possibly get into it. But the Eskimos are used to crowding into very small spaces, indeed. Sometimes a man and his wife and all his children will live in a space about the size of a big double bed. First the Angakok came out of his igloo, looking fatter than ever. The Angakok always found plenty to eat somehow.
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