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Updated: May 8, 2025
But everybody in the whole village where Menie and Monnie live was simply astonished to see twin babies! They had never known of any before in their whole lives. Old Akla, the Angakok, or Medicine Man of the village, shook his head when he heard about them. He said, "Such a thing never happened here before. Seals and human beings never have twins! There's magic in this."
The bay froze over far out from shore, and the white snow covered the igloos so completely that if it had not been for the windows, and for people moving about out of doors, no one could have told that there was any village there. The Last Day of all was so short that Menie and Monnie and Koko saw the whole of it from the top of the Big Rock!
Under the kettle on a flat stone she placed the lamp. Then the stove was ready. "We shall cook out of doors most of the time," she said to the twins, "but in rainy weather we shall need the lamp." It was only a little while before there was a whole new village ready to live in, with plenty of fish and good fresh water right at hand. Menie and Monnie were happy in their new home.
In the air there was a faint smell of cooking meat. Menie sniffed. "I'm so hungry I could eat my boots," he said. "There are better things to eat than boots," Monnie answered. "What would you like best of everything in the world if you could have it?" "A nice piece of blubber from a walrus or some reindeer tallow," said Menie. "Oh, no," Monnie cried.
They would have liked it better still if Monnie had been a boy, too, because boys grow up to hunt and fish and help get food for the family. But Kesshoo was the best hunter and the best kyak man in the whole village. So he said to Koolee, "I suppose there must be girls in the world. It is no worse for us than for others."
The Angakok's wives, and Koko's mother and her baby, and Koolee, and Monnie, and Nip and Tup all ran to meet the hunters, and you never saw two prouder boys than Koko and Menie when they showed the reindeer to their mothers. The mothers were proud of their young hunters, too. Koolee said, "Soon we shall have another man in our family."
Monnie must learn to sew, and Menie must help Father with feeding the dogs and looking after their harnesses, and driving the sledge." "Maybe Father will teach you both to carve fine things out of ivory this winter! Monnie will soon need her own thimble and needles. They must be made. And she can help me clean the skins and suck out the blubber, and prepare them for being made into clothes!"
When the people had all gone away, Menie and Monnie sat down on the side of the sledge. Nip and Tup were busy burying bones in the snow. The other dogs had eaten all they wanted to and were now lying down asleep in the sun, with their noses on their paws. Everything was still and cold. It was so still you could almost hear the silence, and so bright that the twins had to squint their eyes.
The twins sat perfectly still for a long time. Nip sat beside Menie, and Tup sat beside Monnie. It grew colder and colder. The sun began to drop down toward the sea again. At last it rested like a great round red wheel right on the Edge of the World! Slowly, slowly it sank until only a little bit of the red rim showed; then that too was gone.
Monnie called to Menie. Menie straightened himself out at the bottom of the slope, picked himself up and ran back to her. "What shall we play?" said Monnie. "Let's get Koko, and go to the Big Rock and slide downhill," said Menie. "All right," said Monnie. "You run and get your sled." Menie had a little sled which his father had made for him out of driftwood. No other boy in the village had one.
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