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at live animals. The girls, also, in 

 making their dolls, learn to sew and to 

 make coats and other garments of rein- 

 deer skin, and boots and shoes of seal- 

 skin leather. 



When the men have very nearly 

 finished building the igloo, the boys are 

 expected to take the big, broad wooden 

 shovel, described in Chapter II., and 

 throw the loose snow against the sides 



of the igloo ; for between the blocks of 

 snow will be many " chinks" and crevices 

 that would let in a great deal of cold air 

 if not stopped up. Besides throwing on 

 this loose, soft snow about two feet deep, 

 the boys have still another way of " chink- 

 ing." Little Boreas, with the snow-knife 

 in his right hand, cuts from the upper 

 edge of the block, in the joint which is 

 to be " chinked," a thin slice of snow, 



