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strength, and is indeed a very fatiguing 

 amusement ; so that, by the time a boy 

 has played quite energetically in this 

 way, if only for a minute, he feels very 

 tired, and is willing to take a breathing 

 spell. It is not a very graceful game, 

 and if you were to take a carpenter's 

 wooden horse and jog it along by short 

 jerks over the floor, you would have a 

 tolerably fair representation of this awk- 

 ward game of the Eskimo children. 

 The best part of it all is the exercise it 

 gives them, and often one will see a 

 single boy jumping along in this stiff- 

 legged fashion as if he were practicing 

 for a race, a slight downhill grade being 

 preferred. 



Another method of racing, somewhat 

 similar to the above, is also practiced ; 

 folding the arms across the breast, and 



