I0 4 THE CHILDREN OF THE COLD. 



sledge-path near the igloos, when he is 

 discovered by the dogs and surrounded. 

 This is likely to be much rougher sport 

 than that of musk-ox hunting, for the 

 boys take their spears and jab away at 

 their brother in the bear robe, until you 

 would think they would break some of 

 his ribs ; while the dogs, emboldened by 

 these supposed brave advances, often- 

 times take big bites of fur from the 

 dangling edges of the robe. The mock 

 bear rears up on his hind feet and growls 

 in a very ferocious manner, until, worn 

 out at last with his hard work and 

 with having his head so tightly cov- 

 ered up with a heavy robe, he finally 

 falls over at some thrust of a spear 

 and pretends to expire. But the next 

 moment he crawls out from the robe, 

 much to the disgust of the dogs, with 



