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Updated: June 20, 2025
She was as sweet as a cluster of dried autumn grasses in her pale blue oh er that very thin stuff in her pale blue Comstockized silk waist and box-pleated voile skirt, with a soft pink glow on her thin cheeks and the tiniest bit of rouge powder on her face, with her handkerchief and room key in her brown walrus, pebble-grain hand-bag. And Mr.
But Eskimos have no votes and never write to the papers; while walrus hides were booming in the markets of civilization. Things like these are not much spoken of. They very rarely appear in print. And when they are mentioned at all it is generally with an apology for introducing unpleasant details.
The method of hunting is precisely the same as that already described in reference to hunting seal, except that the spear is generally used in preference to the rifle to secure the walrus, and the rifle is preferred to the spear in seal-hunting. Usually there are two hunters who approach the walrus, one hiding behind the other, so that the two appear but as one.
He was not allowed to sleep in any of the huts, but one family permitted him to lie outside in the cold passage among the dogs who were his pillows and his quilt. They gave him no good meat, but flung him bits of tough walrus hide such as they gave to the dogs, and he was obliged to gnaw it as the dogs did, for he had no knife.
At the time of their arrival it had not been disturbed for some hours, for the water was covered by a coat of young ice, which was quite able to bear the weight of the men singly, though scarcely sufficiently strong for the sledges. Just as they arrived a walrus took it into its very thick head to crash up through the young ice and have a gambol.
About noon the floes, which all that day had begun to assume what is termed a "sloppy character," suddenly gave way, and the Walrus settled down into her proper element, with great equanimity and propriety. Captain Poke lost no time in unshipping the skids; and a smacking breeze, that was well saturated with steam, springing up from the westward, we made sail.
Was the motor simply dead, or was the propeller gone? He had but an instant to wait. There came the purr of the motor, then the sudden sound of racing machinery, which told plainer than words that the worst had happened. "I think it was a walrus, sir," said Rainey, who had been in charge of the wheel-room.
It was on that occasion that I became possessed of my ever-to-be-lamented infant Walrus. No one, personally unacquainted with that "most delicate monster," can have any idea of his attaching qualities.
In succession Ootah uttered imitations of the calls of the walrus bulls, the female caribou, and cries of the various birds. "Have I not held converse with the animals of the land, the birds of the air, and shall I not one day perchance comb the hair of Nerrvik in the sea!" The drums beat more loudly; the dancers hopped and leaped.
The boys were guarding this special party of seamen at their work, but had seen no bears since sunset. There was plenty of light, for both the earth-planet was shining on them and her moon likewise, although the latter was now in her last quarter. Quite sure that the sailors would not be molested, Jack and Mark crept away toward the pool where they had seen the walrus.
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