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Updated: May 17, 2025
"Dar's a ole grey un, massa, right ober 'Ockins's head a tremenjous big 'un. Don't you see 'im wid a griggy young un beside 'im?" Three others fell off in their anxiety to observe the result. Hockins leapt up with an indignant roar, and the rats leaped among the pots and pans with a horrified squeak, while Ebony and the others looked on with excruciating enjoyment.
"Yes, mother, and she is also griggy." We may remark in passing that it is impossible to convey the exact meaning of the Eskimo word which we have rendered "griggy." Enough to say, once for all, that in difficult words and phrases we give as nearly as possible our English equivalents. "And Kunelik," said Nuna, continuing to enumerate her guests; "I like the mother of Ippegoo.
"Well, granny, how are you?" said I, seating myself on a stool beside her, and thinking how I should begin. "Pretty griggy eh?" inquired little Slidder. "Ah! there you are, my dear boys," said the old lady, who had latterly got to look upon me and my protege as brothers. "You are always sure to come, whoever fails me." "Has any one failed you to-day, granny?" I asked.
But poor old thing though she certainly was, that antiquated creature became a griggy old thing immediately, and was so tickled with the idea of the stoutest and handsomest man of the party devoting himself entirely to her, when all the younger women were allowed to look after themselves, that she could scarcely walk during the first few minutes for laughing.
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