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Updated: June 11, 2025
She put her arms around him and pressed her flat nose to his. That's the Eskimo way of kissing. Menie tried to look as if he killed seals and got carried away on an ice pan every day in the week, but inside he felt very proud, too. When Kesshoo and Koko's father came up with the big seal, Koolee and the other women dragged it to the village, where it was skinned and cut up.
Then they all dived into the tunnel like frightened rabbits. When they came up in the one little room of the igloo at the other end of the tunnel Kesshoo and Koolee were just crawling out of the warm fur covers of their bed. Menie and Monnie and Koko and the little dogs all began to talk at once.
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.
Menie dragged his own little seal after him by the harpoon line, and when he came near the beach, the people all cried out, "See the great hunter with his game!" And Koolee was so glad to see Menie and so proud of her boy that she nearly burst with joy! "I knew the charm would work," she cried. "Not only does he spy bears he kills seals! And he only five years old!"
"I was just packing. You can help me. There's a lot to do to get ready." The twins were delighted to help. They got together all their own treasures the sled, and the fishing rods, the dog harnesses, and Annadore, and bound them up with walrus thongs. All but Annadore. Annadore rode in Monnie's hood as usual. Koolee gathered all her things together again and wrapped them in the musk-ox hide.
"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.
"That is well," the Angakok said to the twins, when Koolee had finished. "Your grandfather will be pleased with your presents, I know. Your grandfather was a just man. I knew him well. He always paid great respect to me. Whenever he brought a bear home he gave me not only a hind leg, but the liver as well!
That very day Koolee put the stones over the roof of the igloo once more, and the twins helped her fill in the chinks with moss and earth, and cover it with a heavy layer of snow, patted down with the snow shovel, until everything was snug and tight again. Then they moved in.
He shook his head and heaved a great sigh. Koolee looked at Kesshoo. She was very anxious. Kesshoo went out at once to the storehouse. He climbed to the top and got the liver. By this time all the people had crawled out of the igloo again, and were ready to carry home their meat. Kesshoo ran to the Angakok and gave him the bear's liver. The Angakok handed it to one of his wives to carry.
"His spirit is now with our fathers." "Why not have a feast?" said Kesshoo. "There hasn't been any fresh meat in the village since the bear was killed, and I don't believe the rest have had anything to eat but dried fish. We have plenty of bear's meat still." Koolee hopped down off the bench and put some more moss into the lamp.
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