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Monnie turned hers up at Menie and said, "What did I tell you?" Menie never said another word about noses. He just changed the subject. He said, "Let's all slide down at once." Koko and Menie sat down on the sled. Monnie sat on Menie. Then they gave a few hitches to the sled and off they went. Whiz! How they flew! The pups came running after them.
Monnie was with Koolee in the hut. By and by Koko said to Menie, "Let's go out on the ice and hunt for seal-holes." "All right," said Menie. "You take your bow and arrows and I'll take my spear. Maybe we shall see some little auks." Koko had a little bow made of deer's horns, and some bone arrows, and Menie had a small spear which his father had made for him out of driftwood.
They climbed about on the rock and found a beautiful cave to play in. They gathered flowers and shells and colored stones and brought them to their mother. Then later they went for more fish with the men, and Kesshoo let them stand on the stones and try to spear the fish just the way the men did. Menie caught one, and Koko caught one, but Monnie had no luck at all.
I see him by the Big Rock; call the others." So she sent Monnie into the igloo of the Angakok, and Menie and Koko into the next huts. She herself screamed, "A bear! A bear!" into the tunnel of Koko's hut. The people in the houses had heard the dogs bark and were already awake. Soon they came pouring out of their tunnels armed with knives and lances.
Menie rolled over and sat up in the snow. He was holding on to the end of his nose. "Iyi, iyi!" he howled, "I bumped my nose on a piece of ice!" Monnie sat up in the snow, too. She pointed her fur mitten at Menie's nose and laughed. "Don't you know you haven't much nose?" she said. "You ought to be more careful of it!"
She was a small, quiet, able woman, whose tranquil manner concealed great clear-headedness and decisiveness. Howard always said that it was a comfort to talk to her, because she always knew what her own opinion was, and did what she intended to do. He found her alone and at tea. She welcomed him drily but warmly. Presently he said, "I want your advice, Monnie; I want you to make up my mind for me.
You cannot touch me. Now I am floating about your heads, now I am touching the roof! I can go wherever I please! Nothing can stop me! I know the secret places of the sun, moon, and stars. I can fly through the roof and go at once to the moon, if I wish to." Then the voice was still. Nobody moved or spoke. Monnie had gone to sleep in the corner of the bed, but Koko and Menie were still awake.
Menie and Monnie and the pups were already sound asleep in their corner of the bench when their father and mother fixed the lamp for the night and crawled in among the fur robes beside them. The day after the feast it was still very cold, but there were signs of spring in the air.
The name of the twins' father was Kesshoo. If you say it fast it sounds just like a sneeze. Their mother's name was Koolee. Kesshoo and Koolee, and Menie and Monnie, and Nip and Tup, all live together in the cold Arctic winter in a little stone hut, called an "igloo." In the summer they live in a tent, which they call a "tupik." The winters are very long and cold, and what do you think!
The first thing Koolee knew something thumped the musk-ox skin on the under side, and the knives and thimbles and needle cases and other things flew in all directions. Up through the hole popped the faces of Menie and Monnie! "Oh, Mother," they shouted. "We're going off on the woman-boats! After only one more sleep, if it's pleasant! Father said so!" Koolee laughed. "I know it!" she said.
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