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and a whack over the knuckles that 

 would break up a whole base-ball game 

 of white boys, only brings out an em- 

 phatic " I-yi! " (their "ouch!") and the 

 rough, harum-scarum game goes on. In 

 a little while, the dogs seem to compre- 

 hend that there is some foolishness about 

 the matter, and begin to drop off one by 

 one, in the order of their ability to see 

 through the joke, and finally the game 

 dies a natural death for want of the dogs 

 and the noise and excitement which con- 

 tribute to it. 



The boys' mock polar-bear hunt is so 

 much like their musk-ox hunt that a few 

 lines will describe it One of the boys 

 of the village gets a polar-bear robe, and 

 wrapping it around him after he is out 

 among the ice hummocks about the 

 village, he comes crawling along some 



