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He was so sleepy and slow that Borgrevinck impatiently gave him a kick, and got for response a short snort from the Buk, and from Sveggum an earnest warning, both of which were somewhat scornfully received. The tinkling bells on the harness had been replaced, but Borgrevinck wanted them removed. He wished to go in silence.
So he wrapped it up in another piece of sealskin, and gave it to his eldest son, telling him to hand it down from son to son, along with the name Makitok. So buk has grown to be a large bundle now, and no one understands it, but every one has great reverence for it, and the Makitok now in possession is a great mystery-man, very wise; we always consult him on important matters."
"This accounts for the mysterious `buk' that we've heard so much about." He received the little book with a look of tender curiosity and opened it carefully, while Leo, Alf, and his son looked on over his shoulder. "1611, sure enough," he said, "though not very legible. The characters are queer, too. Try, Alf, what you can make of it." Alf took the book.
I took the hint at once: the Indian who had come up to the fort was a great man that was evident; I walked on with a majestic air, gathered up the velvet reins, and sprung into the magnificent high-peaked saddle. "Buk, buk," said I. "It is good. In the name of the forty-nine Imaums, let us ride on."
Now when the new wife was brought to the palace the daughter of Buk Ettemsuch rose, and spoke to the ladies who had come to attend on the second bride. 'Go and sit down. I will make ready the feast. And the ladies sat down as they were told, and waited. The maiden sat down too, and called out, 'Come here, firewood, and the firewood came. 'Come here, fire, and the fire came and kindled the wood.
The ox raised his head at the noise the girl made in opening the lattice, and said to her, 'Good morning, O daughter of Buk Ettemsuch! Your father is feeding you up till you are nice and fat, and then he will put you on a spit and cook you. These words so frightened the maiden that she burst into tears and ran out of the room.
And the pitcher burst into tears, and ran to the maiden, and said: 'Mistress, beat the water-jug, for he has broken my spout! 'By the head of Buk Ettemsuch, I implore you not to beat me! 'Ah, she replied, 'if only my husband had sworn by that oath, I could have spoken to him from the beginning, and he need never have taken another wife.
A Wren pecking crumbs on a drum-head aroused the Orange army, it is said, and ended the Stuart reign in Britain. Little wonder, then, that to a noble Reindeer Buk should be committed the fate of Norway: that the Troll on the wheel should have reason in his rhyme. These were troublous times in Scandinavia. Evil men, traitors at heart, were sowing dissension between the brothers Norway and Sweden.
Anyhow he founded a colony in Great Isle, and Makitok is the present head of all the families." Leo then explained about the mystery-thing called buk, which was wrapped up in innumerable pieces of sealskin. "Strange," said the Captain, "passing strange. All you tell me makes me the more anxious to visit this man of the valley.
But when I trace back far back I come to one man my first father, who had no father, it is said, and who came no one knows from where. My mind is not confused or lost; it is stopped!" "Might not the mystery-bundle that you call buk explain matters?" asked Alf. When this was translated, the old man for the first time looked troubled.
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