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Monnie gave her a leather string with a lucky stone tied to it. Koolee put that on the bear's head too. Then she said, "There! In five days' time the bear's spirit will give the shadows of these things to your grandfather. Then we can eat the head, but not until we are sure the bear's spirit has reached the home of the Dead."
I thought he would be the death of us all one evening at Windlow. He simply couldn't stop, and he had a pathetic look in his eye, as if he was saying, 'Can't anyone assist me to hold my tongue?" Howard laughed and got up. "Well," he said, "I'll take your advice. I don't know anyone like you, Monnie, for making up one's mind. You crystallise things.
When they were warmed and fed, they pulled off their little fur suits, crawled into the piles of warm skins on the sleeping bench, and in two minutes were sound asleep. It is very hard to tell what day it is, or what hour in the day, in a place where the days and nights are all mixed up, and where there are no clocks. Menie and Monnie had never seen a clock in their whole lives.
In another instant he was out again and pulling on his skin coat. Then he took the kyak on his shoulders and ran with it to the beach. Monnie and Koolee came running after him. They were doing the screaming now! Every one in the village heard the screams and came running down to the beach, too.
"We thought we were left," wailed Monnie! "As if I could leave you behind!" cried Koolee. She laughed at them. "Hand up the skins to me," she said. She reached her arm down the hole and pulled out all the skins from the bed as fast as the twins gave them to her. Then she put her head down into the opening and looked all around. "We haven't left a thing," she said; "come along."
Kesshoo had to put on the top blocks to make the roof. Neither Koko nor Menie could do it right, though they tried and tried. It is a very hard thing to do. When the blocks were all laid up and the dome finished, Kesshoo said, "Now, Monnie can help pack it with snow." Monnie got the snow shovel. The snow shovel was made of three flat pieces of wood sewed together with leather thongs.
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.
"We don't want to wait for the cooked meat," cried Monnie. "We want to go fishing before the sun is gone. Give us more fat and we'll eat it outside." "You may go fishing if your father will go with you and cut holes for you in the ice," said her mother. Koolee cut off two more pieces of fat. The twins took a piece in each hand.
Then the four hunters started on their journey Menie and Koko driving the dogs in front of them. Monnie stood on the Big Rock and watched them until they were out of sight in the fog. Nip and Tup were with her. They wanted to go as much as Monnie did and she had hard work to keep them from following after the hunters. Kesshoo knew very well where to look for the reindeer.
Each day he stays for a longer time until after a while he doesn't go out of sight at all! Then there are four long months of daylight when there is never any bedtime. Menie and Monnie just go to sleep whenever they feel sleepy. Although many Eskimos think twins bring bad luck, Kesshoo and Koolee were very glad to have two babies.
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