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Under the impulse, he gave vent to a yell that drew a nod of gratified approval from his mother, and quite astonished those who knew him best. Redoubling his twistings and drummings, he soon wore himself out, and ere long fell down in a state of temporary exhaustion. Having thus, according to instruction, worked himself up to the proper pitch of enthusiasm, Ippegoo lay still and panted.
On one I will drive Nunaga away to the far-south, where the Innuit who have much iron dwell. On the other you will follow. We will live there for ever. They will be glad to receive us." "But but " said Ippegoo hesitatingly, and with some anxiety, for he did not like to differ on any point from his master "I cannot leave my my mother!" "Why not?" "I suppose it is because I love her.
With much affectation of confidence, the wizard replied that there were two kinds of men who were fit to be angekoks men with weak minds and warm hearts, or men with strong minds and cold hearts. "And have you the strong mind?" asked Ippegoo. "Yes, of course, very strong and also the cold heart," replied Ujarak.
Meanwhile they made themselves agreeable to the new arrivals, whose hearts they gladdened by telling them that their friends in the north had plenty of narwhal horns and bones and walrus tusks and sinews to exchange for their wood and iron. But to return to Ippegoo on his distant and elevated outlook.
Ippegoo thought that if he was really to be troubled in that way, the only difficulty would be to prevent people from knowing it, but observing that his master was getting angry, he wisely held his tongue, and listened with earnest attention while Ujarak related the details of the ordeal through which he was about to pass.
Poor Ippegoo had not strength either to uncoil, or lift, or even move his foe, and failed to find a crevice in his hairy dress into which he might stuff snow. After a few minutes Okiok straightened himself out, jumped up, and scurried off again over the ice, in the direction of the berg of the green cave, followed by the entire village.
One of these was the wife of Simek, the best hunter of the tribe. Her name was Pussimek. She was round and short, comely and young, and given to giggling. She had a baby a female baby named after her, but more briefly, Pussi, which resembled her in all respects except size. Beside her sat the mother of Ippegoo.
From infancy Ippegoo had rejoiced in his wise little mother's decisions. To be saved the trouble of thinking; to have a straight and simple course clearly pointed out to him, so that he should have nothing to do but shut his eyes and walk therein or, if need be, run was the height of Ippegoo's ambition next to solid feeding. But be not hard on him, good reader.
The spot chanced to be only a short distance beyond the place where the wizard had met Ippegoo, but the sea-shore there was so covered with hummocks of ice that Nunaga had approached without being observed by either the wizard or the pupil. It was not more than a few minutes after Ippegoo had left on his errand to herself that she came suddenly in sight of Ujarak.
He would have done or given anything to escape being made a wise man. But Ujarak was inexorable. Poor Ippegoo sought comfort from his mother, and, to say truth, Kunelik did her best for him, but she could not resist the decrees of Fate i.e. of the wizard. "Be a man, my son, and all will go well," she said, as he sat beside her in her hut, with his chin on his breast and his thin hands clasped.
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