CHAPTER II. 



HOW THEIR HOUSES ARE BUILT. 



T F, when you cut your boiled egg in 

 * two at breakfast (if you are not break- 

 fasting with a French aristocrat, who 

 never cuts, but only chips, his egg), and 

 have taken out the meat, you will put 

 the two shells, rims down, on the table, 

 you will have a miniature representa- 

 tion of a couple of Eskimo snow huts 

 or winter homes. The fuller shell, or 

 big end of the egg, will represent 

 an igloo during the coldest weather, 



