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Updated: May 10, 2025
But the dogs were too nimble. The bear could not catch them. When Kesshoo came near, the bear gave a great roar, and started for him. The brave Kesshoo stood still with his lance in his hand, until the bear got quite near. Then he ran at the bear and plunged the lance into his side. The lance pierced the bear's heart. He groaned, fell to the ground, rolled over, and was still.
After a while Kesshoo came up from the beach and went to sleep too. The summer days flew by, only one really shouldn't say days at all, but summer day. For three whole bright months it was just one daylight picnic all the time! The people ate when they were hungry and slept when they were sleepy.
Everybody else in the village got ready in the same way. At last Kesshoo came up from the beach and said to Koolee, "Let us have some meat and a sleep and then we will start. Everything is ready. The boats are packed and it looks as if the weather would be clear."
Each day he stays for a longer time until after a while he doesn't go out of sight at all! Then there are four long months of daylight when there is never any bedtime. Menie and Monnie just go to sleep whenever they feel sleepy. Although many Eskimos think twins bring bad luck, Kesshoo and Koolee were very glad to have two babies.
The dogs barked and raced up and down the beach, the babies crowed, and the children shouted for joy. Even the grown people were gay. They talked in loud tones and laughed and made jokes. At last Kesshoo shouted, "All ready! In you go!" He told each person where to sit. He put the Angakok in one boat to steer. He put Koko's father in the other.
Then he said, "If Koko's father will go, too, you and Koko may both go with us. You are pretty small to go hunting, but boys cannot begin too early to learn." Menie was wild with joy. He rushed to Koko's house and told him and his father what Kesshoo had said. When he had finished, Koko's father said at once, "Tell Kesshoo we will go." It was not long before they were ready to start.
As each one tasted the blood he called out the part of the bear he would like to have. The wives of the Angakok cried, "Give a hind leg to the Angakok." "The kidneys for Koko," cried Koko's mother when she stuck in her finger. "That will make him a great bear-hunter when he is big." "And I will have the skin for the twins' bed," said their mother. Kesshoo promised each one the part he asked for.
Then everybody else listened, while Kesshoo told about how once he had taken his dog sledge with a load of musk-ox and seal skins on it far down the coast and how at last he had come to a little settlement where the houses were all made of wood, if they would believe it! He told them that in the bay before the village there was a boat as big as the Big Rock itself.
The snow was rough and hard, and it hurt a good deal to be dragged through it as if they were sledges, but Eskimo boys are used to bumps, and they knew if they cried they might scare the game, so they never even whimpered. It was lucky for them that they had not far to go. When they came bumping along, Kesshoo and Koko's father laughed at them. "Don't be in such a hurry," they called.
There was a bunch of such thread beside her. Soon Kesshoo came in, bringing with him a dried fish and a piece of bear's meat, from the storehouse. Koolee looked up from her sewing. "Isn't it five sleeps since you killed the bear?" she said. Kesshoo counted on his fingers. "Yes," he said, "it is five sleeps." "Then it is time to eat the bear's head," said Koolee.
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