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Updated: May 14, 2025
With his eyes, that were as bright as Koko's, and full of all sorts of mischief; with his hands and feet and the movements of his body. He had a way of shaking his hands before him when highly delighted, a way of expressing nearly all the shades of pleasure; and though he rarely expressed anger, when he did so, he expressed it fully. He was just now passing over the frontier into toyland.
The Angakok seemed very much pleased with himself, and he looked about, as if he expected every one else to be pleased with him too. All the people were filled with wonder at his great power. They began to talk among themselves. "Yes, I remember the famine well," said Koko's father. "I was away up the coast that season. Several died in our village for lack of food."
She and Koolee both plunged into the tunnel like mice down a mouse hole. Nip and Tup were ahead of them. Outside they found Koko's mother and the baby. Koolee called to her, and she called to the wives of the Angakok, who were scraping a bear's skin in the snow.
The wives scuttled up on to the sleeping bench, and got into the farthest corner of it as fast as they could. The women and children always sat back on the bench at a feast. When Koko's mother came in, the baby was still crying. She climbed up on to the bed with him, and Menie and Monnie showed him the pups and that made the baby laugh again.
They got there just in time to hear Koko's father say to Kesshoo, "I think it's safe to start. The ice is pretty well out of the bay, and the reindeer will be coming down to the fiords after fresh moss." All the men listened to hear what Kesshoo would say, and the twins listened, too, with all their ears. "If it's clear, I think we could start after one more sleep," said Kesshoo.
Menie and Koko held the dogs back as hard as they could. Kesshoo and Koko's father crept forward with their bows in their hands. The fog was so thick they could not see very far before them. They had gone only a short distance, when out of the fog loomed two great gray shadows. Instantly the two men dropped on their knees and took careful aim. The reindeer did not see them.
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.
"Yes," Monnie said, "and where we slid downhill." "And I see where I got caught on the ice raft," Menie shouted. "Sit down," said Koko's mother. "You'll tip the boat and spill us all into the water."
"There's plenty of time!" They unbound the traces from Menie and Koko and hitched the dogs to the body of the reindeer. Then they all started back to the village with Koko's father driving the dogs. Soon the fog lifted and the sky grew clear. Monnie was playing with her doll in the igloo, when she heard Tooky bark. She knew it was Tooky at once.
Then how everybody ran! Koko's mother had her baby in her hood, where Eskimo mothers always carry their babies. She could not run so fast as the others. The Angakok was fat, so he could not keep up, but he waddled along as fast as he could. "Hurry, hurry," he called to his wives. "Bespeak one of his hind legs for me."
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