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Updated: May 23, 2025
"It is the luck of the spear," said Ujarak, "not the skill of the hunter." This would have been an unkind cut to ordinary mortals, but it fell as harmless on Ippegoo as water on the back of the eider-duck. A snub from the wizard he took almost as a compliment, and the mere success of his shot afforded him unbounded pleasure.
He threw up his arms, and gave way to a violent explosion of loud and hearty laughter. If a bomb-shell had burst among the spectators, it could scarcely have caused greater consternation. A panic ensued. Incontinently the mother of Ippegoo plunged head first into the tunnel. The mother of Arbalik followed, overtook her friend, tried to pass, and stuck fast.
They soon reached the ledge of rock where Okiok had seen the "something," and, looking cautiously over it, Rooney beheld his friend Kajo smoking a long clay pipe such as Dutchmen are supposed to love. Ippegoo was watching him in a state of ecstatic absorption. Rooney drew back and indulged in a fit of stifled laughter for a minute, but his companion was too much surprised even to smile.
A mild remonstrance, with a good wipe down, soon put her to rights, and Nuna was about to resume her discourse, when the sound of rushing footsteps outside arrested her. Next moment a wild scrambling was heard in the tunnel as of a giant rat in a hurry and Ippegoo tumbled into the hut in a state of wild excitement, which irresistibly affected the women. "What has happened?" demanded Nuna.
As each number was named, the eyes of the assembly opened wider with surprise, until they could open no further. "Men, women, and children live in these houses; and if you were to spread them all over the ice here, away as far as you can see in every direction, you would not be able to see the ice at all for the houses." "What a liar!" murmured the mother of Arbalik to the mother of Ippegoo.
It seemed so unnatural. What powers of sudden onslaught might not lie hidden within that calm exterior? what dynamitic capacities of swift explosion might not underlie that fearless expression? "Ippegoo," he said, stifling his anger with a painful effort, "are you going to turn against your best friend?" "My mother is my best friend," answered the youth stoutly. "You are right; I made a mistake."
Ippegoo and Arbalik, with the sons of Okiok, tried their best to save the two kayaks, for well they knew the danger of being left on the ice without the means of escaping; but the suddenness of the disruption, the width of the various channels they had to leap, and the instability of the masses, compelled them, after much delay, to drop their burdens and save themselves.
"Nothing else, and nothing less," growled the wizard, clenching his teeth "if he gets her! But he shall never get her! I will stop that; and that is why I ask you to listen for you must be ready to act, and in haste." As Ippegoo began to entertain uncomfortable suspicions that the wizard was about to use him as an instrument of vengeance, he made no response whatever to the last remark.
But come, I will try to cure you," said Rooney, who, under the impression that violent physical exertion coupled with distraction of mind would produce good effect, had suddenly conceived a simple ruse. "Do you see yon jutting ice-cliff that runs down to a point near the edge of the berg?" "Yes, I see," whimpered Ippegoo.
A peculiar tinge of pallor overspread his face at that moment. "What's wrong, Ippegoo?" "I I feel f-funny." "Never mind that," said Kajo. "It's always the way at first. When I first tried it I "
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