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Meetuck had approached to within shot, but he did not fire; the wary Esquimaux had caught sight of another object which a lump of ice had hitherto concealed from view. This was no less a creature than a walrus, who chanced at that time to come up to take a gulp of fresh air, and lave his shaggy front in the brine, before going down again to the depths of his ocean home.
Fred sank down again instantly: that deadly sleep produced by cold, and from which those who indulge in it never awaken, was upon him. "Sleep!" cried West frantically; "you'll die, sir, if you don't rouse up. Hallo! Meetuck! O'Riley! help! here. "I tell you," murmured Fred faintly, "I want to sleep only a moment or two ah! I see; is the hut finished? Well, well, go, leave me. I'll follow in a "
It is true the boots perplexed them a little, and the less ingenious among the men made very rare and curious-looking foot-gear for themselves, but they succeeded after a fashion, and at last the whole crew appeared on deck in their new habiliments, as we have already mentioned, capering among the snow like bears, to their own entire satisfaction and to the intense delight of Meetuck, who now came to regard the white men as brothers so true is it that "the tailor makes the man!"
"Sure the road's gittin' narrower," observed O'Riley, as he glanced up at the blue walls, which rose perpendicularly to a height of sixty feet on either hand. "Have a care, Meetuck, or ye'll jam us up, ye will." "'Tis a pity we left the ice-belt," remarked Fred, "for this rough work among the bergs is bad for man and dog.
"Six, I think; yes one, two, three, I can't make them out quite, but I think there are six, besides the one on the ice. Hist! there he sees him. Ah! Meetuck, he's too quick for you." As he spoke, the seal on the ice began to show symptoms of alarm.
The operation of cutting out the entrails, preparatory to packing on the sledge, was now commenced by Meetuck, whose practised hand applied the knife with the skill, though not with the delicacy, of a surgeon. "She has been a hungry bear, it seems," remarked Fred, as he watched the progress of the work, "if we may judge from the emptiness of her stomach."
Poker sprang forward, wagging the stump of his tail, and turned his head to one side, as if to say, "Well, what's up? Any fun going?" "Here, take that, old boy; Dumps is sulky." Poker took it at once, and a single snap caused it to vanish. He, too, had finished supper, and evidently ate the morsel to please the Irishman. "Hand me the coffee, Meetuck," said Fred.
They were clad from head to foot in Esquimau costume, and now bore as strong a resemblance to Polar bears as man could attain to. Meetuck was the pattern and the chief instrument in effecting this change.
Meetuck accompanied each word with a violent nod of his head, at the same time opening and shutting his mouth and winking with both eyes, being apparently impressed with the conviction that such contortions of visage rendered his meaning more apparent. "Look! look! ho! Nannook, nannook!"
"There they go," cried Fred, as the she-bear bounced out of the crack with Poker hanging to her heels. Poker's audacity had at last outstripped his sagacity, and the next moment he was performing a tremendous somersault. Before he reached the ice, Meetuck and Fred fired simultaneously, and when the smoke cleared away, the old bear was stretched out in death.
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