A TKEASURY OF ESKIMO TALES 



dogs and wild beasts; but after they had seen 

 the dwarf people bury their son in a grave-box 

 with toys placed about him, they buried their 

 dead in that way and observed four days of 

 mourning as had been done by the dwarf; for they 

 liked him and his gentle manners. 



And ever since that time the hunters coming 

 home at dusk and looking toward the darkening 

 tundra, sometimes see dwarf people who carry 

 bows and arrows, but who disappear into the 

 ground if one tries to approach them. They are 

 harmless people, never attempting to do anyone 

 an injury. No one has ever spoken to these 

 dwarfs since the time they left the village; but 

 deer hunters have often seen their tracks near the 

 foot of the mountains. 



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