CHAPTER XIII. 



HOW THEIR CLOTHES ARE MADE. 



Y\ 7 HEN the reindeer have been killed, 

 * their skins are stretched on the 

 ground to dry, with the hairy side down, 

 and although they may freeze as stiff as a 

 board, in the course of a week or two the 

 water will dry out of them. These skins 

 are then taken and put through a pro- 

 cess by means of which they are made as 

 nice and soft as a piece of buckskin or 

 chamois-skin or, if it be a fawn rein- 

 deer, as soft as piece of kid. This is 



