62 THE CHILDREN OF THE COLD. 



ceases. The victor now puts up some 

 new prize a musk-ox robe, or a sledge 

 dog, or a seal-skin line and the game 

 goes on as usual until all are ready to 

 stop. This is a favorite game during 

 the long winter eveningG when food is 

 plentiful and every body is merry. 



Many of the little Eskimo girls have 

 dolls, dressed very much like themselves, 

 and made entirely by their own hands. 

 The face is of tanned seal-skin, about as 

 black as their own, two round beads 

 being sewed in for eyes and a couple of 

 long ones for nose and mouth. The 

 rest of the doll is clothed in reindeer 

 skin, the same as its little mistress when 

 she is out in the winter's cold. The 

 little Eskimo girls do not seem to take 

 as kindly to their dolls or to derive as 

 much amusement from their assumed 



