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Updated: June 29, 2025
With quick dexterity Attalaq loosely twisted a leather thong about the baby's neck, and in haste to finish the tragic task began swaying it in his hands so as to give the helpless creature momentum in its plunge to death. Ootah bounded toward them. "Aulate! Aulate! Halt!" Ootah cried. "I will be father to Annadoah's child."
The girl shook her head. Much as she had protested, she was unquestionably pleased by the forcible abduction. One of the gossips, desiring to impart the unpleasant news to Papik, had gone to his house. "Papik sits alone," she called, on her return. "And when I told him Ahningnetty hath been carried away by Attalaq, he replied, ''Tis well!
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.
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.
Early in March Arnaluk, skirmishing along the shore, saw a bear disappearing in the distance. The animal was making its direction seaward, and this indicated to the astute native that its quick senses had detected the presence of seal. "Ootah! Ootah!" he called. "Attalaq! Attalaq!" The two tribesmen responded. With harpoons and lances they followed the trail of the bear.
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."
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