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Updated: April 30, 2025
Papik parted with his load for a box of ammunition and a few needles. Meanwhile the bartering went on for the hoarded wealth of the tribe. Eager to precede one another, the natives rushed to and fro, bringing armfuls of ivories and furs from their tents.
Papik had chosen his place a little farther off, and stood there alone. And then it came. They heard the snow creaking, with the sound of a cry, and the sound moved towards Papik, and a fog came down over the ice. And soon they heard shouts as of one in a fury, and the screaming of one in fear; the monster had fallen upon Papik, to devour him.
At that moment an ominous noise was heard on the sea. The tide, in moving, caused the massive floe-ice to grate against that adhering to the shore. To the simple natives, the noise indicated something more sinister. "Hearest that?" Ahningnetty asked. "Yea," replied Papik, "Qulutaligssuaq, the monster who lives in the sea, cometh with his hammers." "He cometh to steal the children.
Now great interest was aroused by the news that Papik was to fight his king dog with the magnificent brute owned by Attalaq. Both Papik and Attalaq were paying evident attentions to Ahningnetty, the chubby and ever smiling maiden, who, while she showed a certain leaning toward Papik, had misgivings as to his eligibility as a husband because of his long fingers.
'Tis well! And then he showed me his hands they were frozen frozen! Verily, he would now be a sorry husband to provide for a wife." "Papik's fingers frozen!" took up the others. "Unhappy Papik." "He sobs and weeps he sobs and weeps," said the old woman. "He saith the dreaded misfortune hath come, and the days of his skill on the hunt are over!"
"Long fingers, short hunt; long nose short life," remarked Maisanguaq, sententiously. Attalaq, happy in his conquest, was broad enough to be generous. He declared that Papik should never want as long as he could shoot the arrow. Generous-hearted, many of the others joined in and bits of blubber were soon offered the lonely Papik, as he sat, nursing his frozen members, in his house.
"Truly, as he saith, there is little food, and happy will be Papik's wife," said one. "But when thy blubber is gone with what shalt thou provide her?" asked Ahningnetty. "Perchance the bears will come," Papik said. "And skillful is Papik's hand with the lance." "But thy hand is long, Papik, and long fingers soon lose their skill." Ahningnetty dubiously shook her head.
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