102 THE CHILDREN OF THE COLD. 



But the musk-ox hunt is not over yet 

 for the boys ; in fact, the most exciting 

 part is still to come. As soon as the 

 mock musk-oxen are " brought to bay " 

 by the excited and foolish dogs, the other 

 boys get their bows and arrows and hurry 

 to the spot, encouraging the dogs, -which 

 have now become furious and wild, and 

 have formed a most ferocious .circle 

 around their supposed prey, all the more 

 fierce where there is so unusual a num- 

 ber as forty-two dogs and but two musk- 

 oxen. Then with their toy arrows, which 

 are specially blunted for this rough play, 

 the other boys pelt the dangling robes 

 in an earnest way that must often make 

 the boys under the robes smart with 

 pain, so heavily do the blunted arrows 

 thud against them ; but these little sav- 

 ages expect their plays to be very rough, 



