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The deer bounded away, but stumbled as it went, showing that it was wounded. "Ha! ha! Bang went Meetuck's musket at that moment, and the deer tumbled over upon the snow. "Well done, old fellow!" cried Fred, springing forward. At the same instant a white hare darted across his path, at which he fired, without even putting the gun to his shoulder, and knocked it over, to his own intense amazement.
But the trinkets of every kind which had been given to him by the men were laid at the feet of the old woman, who looked at everything in blank amazement, yet with a smile on her wrinkled visage that betokened much satisfaction. Meetuck's oily countenance beamed with delight as he sat puffing his pipe in his grandmother's face.
"Wots come o' Dumps and Poker?" enquired Buzzby, as they reached the boat. "Oh, I quite forgot them!" cried Fred; "stay a minute, I'll run up and find them. They can't be far off." For some time Fred searched in vain. At last he bethought him of Meetuck's hut, as being a likely spot, in which to find them.
"The dogs seem to be disobedient," remarked Amos Parr, as his comrade sat down; "they'd be the better of a taste o' Meetuck's cat, I think." "It's truth ye're sayin'," replied O'Riley, commencing a violent assault on a walrus-steak; "they don't obey orders at all, at all. An' Dumps, the blaggard, is as cross-grained as me grandmother's owld pig "
Meetuck's duties were not light upon this occasion, as you may suppose. "Arrah, then, don't ye onderstand me?" cried O'Riley in an excited tone to a particularly obtuse and remarkably fat Esquimaux, who was about as sharp at a bargain as himself. "Hallo! Meetuck, come here, do, and tell this pork-faced spalpeen what I'm sayin'. Sure I couldn't spake it plainer av I was to try."
West had already crawled into his blanket-bag, and was stretched out like a mummy on the floor, and the sound of Meetuck's jaws still continued as he winked sleepily over the walrus-meat, when a scraping was heard outside the hut. "Sure, it's the foxes; I'll go and look," whispered O'Riley, laying down his pipe and creeping to the mouth of the tunnel.
The deer bounded away, but stumbled as it went, showing that it was wounded. "Ha! ha! Bang went Meetuck's musket at that moment, and the deer tumbled over upon the snow. "Well done, old fellow!" cried Fred, springing forward. At the same instant a white hare darted across his path, at which he fired, without even putting the gun to his shoulder, and knocked it over, to his own intense amazement.
Meetuck's duties were not light upon this occasion, as you may suppose. "Arrah! then, don't ye onderstand me?" cried O'Riley, in an excited tone, to a particularly obtuse and remarkably fat Esquimau, who was about as sharp at a bargain as himself. "Hallo! Meetuck, come here, do, and tell this pork-faced spalpeen what I'm sayin'. Sure I couldn't spake plainer av I wos to try."
"No fee," said Meetuck, looking over his shoulder with a broader smirk. "No fee, ye lump of pork! it's a double fee I'll have to pay the dacter an ye go on like that." No fee was Meetuck's best attempt at the words no fear.
Meetuck's mother had died many years before, and all the affection in his naturally warm heart was transferred to, and centred upon, his old grandmother. Meetuck's chief delight in the gifts he received was in sharing them, as far as possible, with the old woman.
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