KIVIUNG 



went into the house. There he found something 

 very strange: a woman living all alone with her 

 daughter! Yet the daughter was married and 

 they kept the son-in-law in the house. But he 

 was a log of driftwood which they had found on 

 the beach. It had four branches like legs and 

 arms. Every day about the time of low water 

 they carried it to the beach and when the tide 

 came in, it swam away. When night came it re- 

 turned with eight large seals, two being fastened 

 to each bough. 



Thus the log provided food for its wife, her 

 mother, and Kiviung, and they lived in abun- 

 dance. Kiviung became rested and refreshed 

 after his weary travels, and he enjoyed this life so 

 well that he remained for a long time. One day, 

 however, after they had launched the log as they 

 had always done, it floated away and never came 

 back. 



Then Kiviung went sealing every day for him- 

 self and the women, and he was so successful that 

 they wished him to remain with them always. 

 But he had not forgotten the home he had left 

 long ago, and meant to return to it. He was 

 anxious to lay in a good stock of mittens to keep 

 his hands warm on the long journey, and each 

 night he pretended to have lost the pair he wore, 



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