A TBEASUKY OF ESKIMO TALES 



In the morning when they got up the Doll was 

 gone. They looked for it all around the house, 

 but could not find it. Then they went outside, 

 and there were its tracks leading away from the 

 door. They followed the tracks to the creek and 

 along the bank to a place outside the village, 

 where they ended; for from this place the Doll 

 had gone up the Milky Way on the path of light 

 upon which the man had gone to find the tree. 



Doll traveled along the bright path till he came 

 to the edge of day, where the sky comes down to 

 the earth and walls in the light. Close beside 

 him, in the east, he saw a skin cover fastened over 

 a hole in the sky wall. The skin was bulging in- 

 ward as if some strong force on the other side 

 were pushing it. 



"It is very quiet here. I think a little Avind 

 would make it livelier," said the Doll, drawing his 

 knife and cutting the cover loose on one side of 

 the hole. At once a strong wind blew through, 

 every now and then bringing with it a live rein- 

 deer. Looking through the hole, Doll saw be- 

 yond the wall another world like the earth. He 

 drew the cover over the hole again. 



" Do not blow too hard," he said to the wind. 

 " Sometimes blow hard, sometimes light, and 

 sometimes do not blow at all." 



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