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the player squirm for some time ; but, 

 with that indifference to bodily pain so 

 characteristic of savages, they go right 

 on with their play, notwithstanding the 

 hurt. In a village of half a dozen fami- 

 lies, you will nearly always see a group 

 of little children, especially the girls, 

 twirling away at this game. As soon as 

 one misses they pass it on to the next, 

 the number of successful catches show- 

 ing who is victor for that particular 

 round. 



Another childish amuse- 

 ment is to take one of the 

 musk-ox cups, shown on 

 this page, and, partially fill- 

 ing it with soup or stew, A MUSK-OX CUP. 

 whirl it around upon a board or flat 

 rock in the center of a group collected 

 to play the game ; the person to whom 



