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Updated: May 10, 2025
She chewed it, all over, on the wrong side, and sucked out all the blubber, and made it soft and fine as velvet; and when that was done, she made out of it two beautiful pairs of white mittens for the twins. During the long, dark hours of the winter Kesshoo found many pleasant things to do at home. He was always busy. He carved a doll for Monnie out of the ivory tusk of a walrus.
When the twins awoke, the sun was shining as brightly as ever, and Nip and Tup were barking at them through the hole in the roof. Kesshoo and Koolee were gone! Menie and Monnie were frightened. They were afraid they were left behind. They sat up in bed and howled! In a moment Koolee's face looked down at them through the roof. "What's the matter?" she said.
And to be sure, if he had been eaten by Giants, no one ever would know about it anyway. Then Kesshoo showed them all a great knife that the white chief had given him, in exchange for a sealskin, and two steel needles that he had sent to Koolee. Koolee kept the needles in a little ivory case all by themselves. She always carried the case in her kamik, so it would not be lost.
We must go round in such a way that the wind will carry the scent from them to us, not from us to them." They turned to the right and went round to the north. They had gone only a short distance in this direction, when they found fresh reindeer tracks in the snow. The dogs began to sniff and strain at their harnesses. "They smell the game," whispered Kesshoo. "Hold on tight! Don't let them run."
This great chief had told Kesshoo that he was going to take a sledge and go straight into the inland country where the Giants live! He said he was going to cross the great ice! No man had ever done that since the world began. Kesshoo thought probably the great chief had been eaten by the Giants, but he did not know surely, because he had never been back there since to find out.
Kesshoo got the light from the tunnel as quickly as he could, and set it on the bench. Then every one saw what was the matter! They all laughed all but Menie and the Angakok. The Angakok said to Koko's father, "You'd better look after that boy. He is disrespectful to me. That is a bad beginning!" Koko's father was ashamed of him. He said, "Koko is so small!" But the Angakok said, "Koko is six.
"Why doesn't somebody help me?" Kesshoo and Koolee seized him under his arms. They pulled and pulled. The two wives pushed him from behind. "I-yi! I-yi!" screamed the Angakok. "You will scrape my skin off!" He kicked out behind with his feet. His wives backed hastily, to get out of the way. That made them bump into Koko's mother who was just behind them.
They did not like to think the pleasant summer was over, and the long night near. But at last Kesshoo said, "I think it is time to go back to winter quarters. The nights are fast growing longer. The snow may be upon us any day now. I don't know of a better place to settle than the village where we spent last winter. The igloos are all built there ready to use again. What do you say?
By the next day all the igloos in the village were in use, and when night came their windows shone with the light of the lamps, just as they had so many months before. Nip and Tup slept outside with Tooky now, in a snow house which Kesshoo had built for them. Menie and Monnie missed them, but Koolee said, "You are getting so big now you must begin to do something besides play with puppies.
While he helped his father pull in the little seal, all the people came running out on to the ice to meet them, but Kesshoo sent back every one except Koko's father. He was afraid the ice might break again with so many people on it. Koko's father helped pull the big seal out of the water and over the ice to the beach.
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