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In this operation she was gleefully assisted by little Tumbler and Pussi, who, having recovered from their horror when the bear fell dead, seemed to think that all succeeding acts were part of a play got up for their special amusement. When the surgical work was done, Nunaga again turned her attention to Kabelaw.
It was a beautiful sight to see the livid hue and gaze of horror change into a flush of loving benignity when Kannoa observed who it was that kneeled beside her. "Poor old woman!" shouted Rooney in her ear. "Are you much hurt?" "No; not hurt at all; only squeezed too much. But I'm afraid for Nunaga. I think she got away, but I was bundled, when I last heard her voice."
In regard to costume, Nuna wore sealskin boots the whole length of her legs which were not long and a frock or skirt reaching nearly to her knees, with a short tail in front and a long tail behind; Nunaga, being similarly clothed, had a shorter tail in front and a longer tail behind.
Okiok glanced with a look of care upon his brow at Nunaga, shook his head gravely once or twice in silence, and began breakfast. After the meal was over he sallied forth to join in the sports, which were soon to begin.
While her husband was rattling away south over the hummocky sea in his empty sledge, Nuna lighted her lamps, opened her stores, and began to cook. "Go now, Nunaga," she said, "and tell the women who are to feed with us to-night." "Who shall I invite, mother?" asked pretty little Nunaga, preparing to set forth on her mission. "Invite old Kannoa, of course. She is good."
"And now," he continued, "I want you to say when you arrive there that you are my wife." "But I am not your wife," returned Nunaga gently, yet firmly. The wizard frowned, then he glared fiercely, then he looked sad, then there settled on his visage a sulky look which gradually faded away, leaving nothing but a simple blank behind.
It so happened that one of the Eskimo youths, who was rather inclined to tease Nunaga, had set a snow-trap for Arctic foxes about two miles from the village. As the spot was not much out of the way, the girl resolved to turn aside and visit the trap, take out the fox, if one chanced to be caught, and in any case set the trap off, or put a bit of stick into it by way of fun.
Instead of replying to the well-meant though impolite question, Nuna laughed again, and looked into the dark corner where the pretty little round face of Nunaga was dimly visible, with the eyes shut, and the little mouth wide-open. "We will marry him to Nunaga," she said, suddenly becoming grave. "Pooh!" exclaimed Okiok or some expression equivalent to that "Marry Nunaga to a Kablunet? Never!
On one I will drive Nunaga away to the far-south, where the Innuit who have much iron dwell. On the other you will follow. We will live there for ever. They will be glad to receive us." "But but " said Ippegoo hesitatingly, and with some anxiety, for he did not like to differ on any point from his master "I cannot leave my my mother!" "Why not?" "I suppose it is because I love her.
"Take time, Ippe," interrupted Kunelik; "I see that your head is down, and your boots are in the air." Again Ippegoo protested earnestly that he was in the reverse position, and that Nunaga was no more to him than the snout of a seal; but he protested in vain, for his pleasant little mother believed that she understood the language of symptoms, and nodded her disbelief smilingly.
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