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WHAT THE MAN IN THE MOON DID 



LONG ago there was a poor little orphan boy 

 who had no home and no one to protect him. All 

 the inhabitants of the village neglected and 

 abused him. He was not allowed to sleep in any 

 of the huts, but one family permitted him to lie 

 outside in the cold passage among the dogs who 

 were his pillows and his quilt. They gave him no 

 good meat, but flung him bits of tough walrus 

 hide such as they gave to the dogs, and he was 

 obliged to gnaw it as the dogs did, for he had no 

 knife. 



The only one who toot pity on him was a young 

 girl, and she gave him a small piece of iron for a 

 knife. ' You must keep it hidden, or the men 

 will take it from you," she said. 



He did not grow at all because he had so little 

 food. He remained poor little Quadjaq, and led 

 a miserable life. He did not dare even to join in 

 the play of the boys, for they called him a " poor 



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