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and we guessed you would come to us." And 

 as she helped to pull the snow-covered seal- 

 skins from off our shoulders she would be 

 saying, " We have some partridges for supper ; 

 and look, Julius, look Johannes, there are 

 sealmeat steaks all there, and I will fiy them 

 if you like." " Atte," big Julius would say, 

 with a merry twinkle in his kind brown eyes, 

 " just do so ; and let there be many steaks, 

 for we are hungry eh, Johannes ? " 



At this Johannes used to laugh, for they 

 were hungry indeed : like all true Eskimos 

 they ate very little while on the run just a 

 frozen sandwich, maybe, with a tin cup of 

 half-frozen tea or a mouthful of icy water, 

 water so icy that it almost makes my teeth 

 ache to think of it. They ate but little as we 

 toiled along ; but when the day was done they 

 were ready for a vast supper. So John's wife 

 fried the seal-meat steaks and took the part- 

 ridges out of the pot, and set the table with 

 butter and home-made bread ; and we fell to 

 with a will. I shall always remember those 

 suppers, because of the scraping noises on the 

 roof. 



Scrape, scrape, scrape, went the noises on 

 the roof, without any ceasing, sometimes 

 quietly and softly, sometimes vigorously, as 

 though someone were trying to dig through 



