16 THE CHILDREN OF THE COLD. 



When Boreas's mother makes the hood 

 for her reindeer suit, she stretches it into 

 a long sack or bag, that hangs down 

 and is supported by her shoulders, and 

 this bag of reindeer's skin is little 

 Boreas's cradle and home, where he lives 

 until he knows how to walk, when he gets 

 his own first suit of clothing. When 

 Boreas gets very cold, as when he is out 

 of doors in an Arctic winter's day with 

 the bitter, cold wind blowing when he 

 gets so very cold that he commences cry- 

 ing about it his mother will take him 

 out of the bag and put him on her back 

 under both her coats, where he will be 

 held by a lot of sealskin strings passing 

 back and forth under him and around his 

 mother's shoulders over her dress ; and 

 there he will be very warm, directly 

 against her body and under her two fur 



