THE BABY ESKIMO 



TliE little Eskimo away up in the northern 

 part of British America has a pretty hard time 

 of it, as you may know when you think how cold 

 it is there. 



He is born in a snow hut, and when he is but a 

 few hours old he is carried on his mother's back 

 out upon the ice, and around and around in cir- 

 cles and after a while through deep snow back to 

 the hut. If that does not kill him, the names he 

 gets are enough to do it ; for he is given the names 

 of all the people who have died in the village since 

 the last baby was born. He sometimes has a 

 string of names long enough to weigh any baby 

 down. Worse than that, if one of his relatives 

 dies before he is four years old, that name is 

 added to the rest and is the one by which he is 

 called. 



Worse still, if he falls sick he is given a dog's 

 name, so that the goddess Sedna will look kindly 

 upon him. Then, all his life, he must wear a 



dog's harness over his inner jacket. If he should 



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