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Updated: May 12, 2025
At the time this conversation was being held in the sea-green cave, Okiok, rising from his lair with a prodigious yawn, said to his wife "Nuna, I go to see Kunelik." "And what may ye-a-o-u -my husband want with the mother of Ippegoo?" asked Nuna sleepily, but without moving. "I want to ye-a-o-u -ask about her son."
The last to disappear was Kunelik, whose tail flapped on the door-post like a small pistol-shot as she doubled round it and scrambled out, leaving Rooney, Angut, Kannoa, and Ippegoo to enjoy the situation. When the lamps were rekindled by Kannoa, it was discovered that the old lady's nostrils were twitching and her throat contracting in a remarkable manner, with smothered laughter.
He shooks Ip'goo an' bose hoed out degidder." Okiok looked at Kunelik, Kunelik looked at Okiok, and both gravely shook their heads. Before they could resume the conversation, Ippegoo's voice was heard outside asking if his mother was in. "Go," said Kunelik; "though he is a fool, he is wise enough to hold his tongue when any one but me is near."
"Reindeer?" suggested Kunelik. "No; the horns are short, with only one point to each; and the beasts are much heavier than reindeer. They have also great beasts, with no name in our language hurses or hosses he calls them, but they don't eat these; they make them haul sledges on little round things called weels " "I know," cried Sigokow; "they must be big dogs!"
He would have done or given anything to escape being made a wise man. But Ujarak was inexorable. Poor Ippegoo sought comfort from his mother, and, to say truth, Kunelik did her best for him, but she could not resist the decrees of Fate i.e. of the wizard. "Be a man, my son, and all will go well," she said, as he sat beside her in her hut, with his chin on his breast and his thin hands clasped.
"Then, mother, I know not what to do." "What did he tell you to do?" asked Kunelik abruptly. The youth gave as much of his conversation with the wizard as sufficed to utterly perplex his mother's mind without enlightening it much. When he had finished, or rather had come to an abrupt stop, she looked at him calmly, and said "My son, whatever he told you to do, go and do it. Leave the rest to me."
He promised most faithfully to tell no one, and then went straight home and told his mother all about it for it never for a moment occurred to the poor fellow to imagine that he was meant to conceal it from his mother! Fortunately Kunelik was a wise little woman. She knew how to keep her own counsel, and did not even by nod or look insinuate to any one that she was in possession of a secret.
He was found by his mother in the evening in a retired spot by the sea, sitting on the rocks with a very disconsolate countenance. "My son, what is the matter?" "Mother, my heart is heavy. I cannot forget Ujarak." "But he treated you ill, my son." "Sometimes not always. Often he was kind and and I loved him. I cannot help it." "Grieve not, Ippe," rejoined pleasant little Kunelik.
"Take time, Ippe," interrupted Kunelik; "I see that your head is down, and your boots are in the air." Again Ippegoo protested earnestly that he was in the reverse position, and that Nunaga was no more to him than the snout of a seal; but he protested in vain, for his pleasant little mother believed that she understood the language of symptoms, and nodded her disbelief smilingly.
"Make for the berg," shouted Angut to the women, at the same time seizing the hand of Kunelik, who chanced to be nearest to him, and assisting her to leap from one heaving mass to another. Rooney performed the same act of gallantry for old Kannoa, who, to his surprise, went over the ice like an antique squirrel. Okiok took his own wife in hand.
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