Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: April 30, 2025
But perchance the bears come then I shall kill them; valiant is my dog." He patted the animal's shaggy head. "But thy fingers, Papik Papik! No no!" "But Papik loves thee," he protested; "his skin flushes with the thought of thee." "That thou didst also say to Annadoah, whom thou didst seek before me." Papik was silent; it was true that Ahningnetty was only a second choice.
And when they found Papik, he was cut about in every part. Eyes, nose and mouth and ears were hacked away, and the scalp torn from his head. Thus that old woman took vengeance for the killing of her son Ailaq. And so it was our fathers used to tell: when any man killed his fellow without good cause, a monster would come and strike him dead with fear, and leave no part whole in all his body.
For, as Papik indicated, whereas a man may admire a slimmer beauty during the summer, when the long night comes a maiden fat and chubby is a wife to be prized. "But alas, thy nose is long, Papik," she said, shaking her head. And the others chorused: "Long nose, short life! Long nose short life! Long nose short life!"
In winter he is very hungry." "They say he frightens people to death when a baby which is fatherless screams." "And after he heats his ladles, the babies often die." Again the grating noise shuddered along the shore, and Ahningnetty, frightened, fled to her house. Papik, pursuing his way, accosted Ootah. As they were speaking they saw Otaq and his wife emerge from their house.
Almost childlike, too, was her face, so palely golden, so fresh, so lovely, so petite. There were mingled in her the coyness of a child and the irresistible coquetry of a woman. She waved her hands joyously to the hunters leaving the shore. They called back to her. Some of the women frowned. One shook her fist at Annadoah. Papik, lingering behind, approached Annadoah timidly.
"Thou art beautiful, Annadoah; thou canst sew with great skill. With the needles the white men brought thee, thou hast made garments such as no other maiden. Papik would wed thee, Annadoah." "Thou art a good lad, Papik," Annadoah replied, laughing gaily. "But thy fingers are very long and long, indeed, thy nose!" Papik flushed, for to him this was a tragedy.
"Go on, Long Fingers," one called. "How wilt thou strike the bear when thy fingers are gone? How wilt thou seek the musk ox when ookiah hath bitten off thy feet?" The maiden who spoke was extremely thin. "Ha, ha!" Papik returned. "How wilt thou warm thy husband when the winter comes?
In anger Papik struck the offending member, and drawing his sledge after him proceeded toward his tent. Assisted by a number of the natives, Ootah, smiling, exultant, drew five sled-loads of blubber up over the ice toward Annadoah's tent. With their comparatively meagre portions the others followed. To Annadoah Ootah meant to show the spoils of his quest.
The other women regarded her with a tinge of envy. "'Tis not often in these days a lover careth sufficiently to carry a maid away," said an aged crone. "In the days of old there were men like Attalaq," said a younger woman, admiringly. "Where is Papik?" one asked. He was not to be seen. "Dost thou not wish to return to thy father?" Annadoah asked Ahningnetty, approaching her.
Half afraid of the whites, flattered by their attentions, and extremely embarrassed, the little women jumped and danced in the visitors' arms. Papik finally drew his single sledge load of walrus toward his tent. He had been rejected repeatedly, but now with a load of blubber he knew he could not afford to miss the opportunity of seeking a wife. "Ahningnetty!
Word Of The Day
Others Looking