A TBEASUBY OF ESKIMO TALES 



everybody was asleep he heard the spirits of the 

 murdered men calling and he recognized their 

 voices. They told him what had happened, and 

 asked the boy to kill the young man in revenge 

 for their deaths. So he crept from under the bed 

 and thrust a knife into the young man's breast. 



Then he awakened all the women and children 

 in the great row of huts and told them that the 

 spirits of the dead men had come to him and told 

 of their murder, and had ordered him to avenge 

 them by killing the young man. 



" Oh, what shall we do? What shall we do? " 

 they cried. " They have killed our men and they 

 will kill us ! " They were terribly frightened. 



" We must fly from here before the men from 

 Exaluq awaken and learn that the young man is 

 slain in revenge," said one of the old women. 



" But how can we fly? Our dogs are dead, and 

 we cannot travel fast enough to escape." 



" I will attend to that," said the old woman. 

 In her hut was a litter of pups, and as she was a 

 conjurer, she said to them, " Grow up at once." 

 She had no fairy wand to wave over them, but she 

 waved a stick, and after waving it once the dogs * 



1 The actual statement both here and on page 39 is that 

 the woman and the Man in the Moon beat the pups and the 

 boy with sticks to make them grow. Is not pur birthday 



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