96 THE CHILDREN OF THE COLD. 



laughed until the air was full of the 

 reindeer hair shaken from their coats 

 in their convulsive mirth ; for the two 

 musk-oxen proved to be only two musk- 

 ox robes that we had secured the day 

 before, with a boy or two under each 

 robe ! 



These boys had procured the musk-ox 

 robes when the sledges were being un- 

 loaded, and had slipped away, unper- 

 ceived by any one, while the men were 

 building the snow houses. After wrap- 

 ping the robes around them they had 

 come down near the igloos, keeping on 

 the windward side, or that side of the 

 'fcamp where the wind blowing on them 

 must also pass over * the camp. All 

 my boy readers know that if game 

 or wild animals thus pass "hear good 

 hunting-dogs, the dogs will " scent " 



