A TKEASUKY OF ESKIMO TALES 



until at last he was obliged to leave the wall and 

 make a circuit to the southward, going back to 

 the north only when he came opposite the open- 

 ing. There the cold was so intense that he 

 waited some time before he could muster courage 

 to cut the cover away. When he did so, a fearful 

 blast rushed in, carrying great masses of snow 

 and ice, strewing it over the entire plain of the 

 earth. It was so bitter that he closed the hole 

 very quickly, and told the wind from that direc- 

 tion to come only in the middle of the winter so 

 that the people might not be taken unawares, and 

 might be prepared for it. 



From there he hastened down to warmer climes 

 in the middle of the earth plain, where, looking 

 up, he saw that the sky was supported by long, 

 slender, arching poles, like those of a conical 

 lodge, but made of some beautiful material un- 

 known to him. Journeying on, he finally came 

 to the village from which he started and went into 

 his own home. 



Doll lived in this village for a very long time; 

 for when the foster parents who had made him 

 died, he was taken by other people of the village 

 and so lived on for many generations, until 

 he finally died. Since his death parents have 

 made dolls for their children in imitation 



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