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Updated: September 10, 2025
His father caught it, and stood on the firm ice, holding in his hands the line that the big seal was tied to, and the harpoon, with its line fastened to the little seal. "Now hold on to the little seal, and I will pull you right up against the solid ice, and when I say 'Jump, you jump," said Kesshoo. Slowly and very, carefully he pulled, until the raft grated against the solid ice.
He thought perhaps Kesshoo could not manage both the ice raft and the seal, and he meant to go to help him. But in one second Kesshoo was right side up again. No water could get into the kyak because Kesshoo's skin coat was drawn tight over the hole in the deck, and Kesshoo was in the coat! Kesshoo often turned somersaults in the water in that way. Sometimes he even did it for fun!
At the opening of the tunnel the father stopped, and looked all around to see if the bear were near. The dogs in the village knew by this time that some strange animal was about, and the moment Kesshoo came out into the moonlight and started for the Big Rock, all the dogs ran, too, howling like a pack of wolves. Kesshoo shouted back to his wife, "There really is a bear!
One bump from a floating cake of ice is enough to upset any boat, and I don't like to think of what might happen if a kyak should get between two big cakes of ice. Kesshoo ran with his kyak as far as he could on the ice. Then he got in and fitted the bottom of his skin jacket over the kyak hole and carefully slid himself into the open water. Once in the water, how his paddle flew!
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