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hair, hanging down so low as to almost 

 cover the legs of the boys hidden under- 

 neath the robes, that had so helped to 

 deceive me when I first saw them, and 

 caused me to put the whole camp in an 

 uproar and thereby fasten a very good 

 joke on myself a joke that clung to me 

 a long time. 



Toolooah, who was one of the most 

 merry-hearted and best-natured young 

 Esquimaux I ever saw, and who, as I 

 have told you, was my best hunter, 

 laughed until his sides were sore and his 

 eyes were red ; and for several weeks 

 after that he would occasionally say " oo~ 

 ming-muk! " and laugh until the tears ran 

 down his cheeks. It was not very often 

 that they had a good joke on a white 

 man, and this one they seemed to enjoy 

 to their hearts' content. 



