Sketches From Oldest America 



notice of her. She crawled around the iglo and 

 watched the fraudulent wife making love to her 

 husband. It filled her with jealousy and indigna- 

 tion, but she could do nothing to help matters. 

 The season was arriving when she would turn into 

 a cocoon for her long winter's sleep. If something 

 did not happen quickly, her hopes would be blasted 

 forever. Crawling up over the place where her 

 mother was cooking, the caterpillar accidentally 

 fell down at the edge of the fire, burst open and 

 the woman escaped from her prison. Her mother 

 was greatly surprised. Explanations were made, 

 and the fraudulent wife was soon turned into a 

 caterpillar. Crawling off she has never since been 

 heard from, and may be crawling yet, as far as any 

 of the villagers know. 



Tungnaluke's Perplexity 

 Tungnaluke was one of those slow-of-compre- 

 hension, good-natured, shiftless fellows, that the 

 men of the world would consider as not being very 

 bright. He would rather hang around his neighbors 

 doing a bit of gossiping, than to exert himself by 

 hunting for his family. As usual with such charac- 

 ters, he had chosen for a wife a woman his extreme 

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