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"Ippegoo, I have work of more importance for you to do than spearing birds work that requires the wisdom of a young angekok." All Ujarak's backhanders vanished before this confidential remark, and the poor tool began to feel as if he were growing taller and broader even as he walked. "You know the hut of Okiok?" continued the wizard. "Yes; under the ice-topped cliff." "Well, Angut is there.
"Boo!" exclaimed the wizard, varying the expression of his contempt. "It is well that your mother has only a small family." Ippegoo was accustomed to severe backhanders from his patron; he was not offended, but smiled in a pathetic manner as he went out in silence to pick up his weapons. Just as he was returning, Arbalik, nephew to the jovial Simek, appeared upon the scene, and joined them.
He was, he says, bullied and tormented till, towards the end of his time, he plucked up spirit to resist. Mr. Coleridge observes that he was anything but a passive victim, and turned fiercely upon the ringleaders of his enemies. 'Often, he adds, 'have I applauded his backhanders as the foremost in the fray. He was only vanquished by numbers.
"She'll need a deal of educating before we let her out alone," he said, after a particularly bad failure, with the first touch of that air of proprietorship that was to become his favourite attitude towards his missus. "It's only common sense; you'll soon get used to it," Mac said in encouragement, giving us one of his delightful backhanders.
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