CHAPTER I. 



WHERE AND HOW THEY LIVE. 



A WAY up near the North Pole, in that 

 * * very coldest portion of the earth's 

 surface known as the Arctic Regions ; 

 where the sun can never get very high 

 above the horizon, although for a part of 

 the year it does shine all day and nearly 

 all night ; where for the rest of the year 

 it scarcely shines at all, and where, there- 

 fore, the climate is dreary, cold, and 

 cheerless the whole year round, there live 

 a great many people men and women, 



