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a sack or two, and piles of reindeer skins. This was 
about all the furniture. ? 3  @ 
Mrs. Uano began bread-making about ten o'clock. 
They thought, no doubt, that I was asleep, but I was not. 
I had been awake at least as soon as they were, and 
watching every point like a terrier at a rat’s hole. Only 
I lay very still and just looked through my eyelashes, 
Tierrtso pounded up the flour, which was caked, for 
it had been wet. Tierrtso was about eleven years old. 
She had, like the others, a Russian name, Zornka, but 
as she was Uano’s fourth’ and youngest daughter; they 
The Kona fe a made firm am, old. fle. 
Like all Samumyed Kmeve s Kare ane chisel edged 
always called her Tierrtso, for ‘tierrt’ in the Samoyed 
means four. The eldest daughter was married and 
away on the mainland; we were not to see her till 
much later. 
- Anka, the second girl, went out and cut up the drift- 
wood for the fire; while the eldest unmarried daughter, 
named Ustynia after her mother, busied herself about 
the fire.. : 
Katrina, his son Philipo’s wife, as Uano told us, and 
Niab-kutni, her little girl, did nothing on this first morning, 
