THE ESKIMO BABY 



keep the plump limbs and rounded outlines of the 

 child, even when they have passed middle age. And 

 partly it is the inherent tendency to imitate, which 

 is strong in the Eskimos, and which the children- 

 living, as they do, constantly in the presence of their 

 parents have every opportunity of cultivating. 

 And so the little boy grows like his father ; he has 

 the same pose, the same stride, the same lift of the 

 feet, the same way of holding his hands ; in fact, in 

 his every manner, and especially in little mannerisms, 

 he is his father over again. 



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