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THE REIN DEER, 
Rein Deer are put to by the Lapp. They give 
milk, and they are good to eat, and they will draw 
a load a long way and very fast. When the Rein 
Deer is dead, its skin is worn by the Lapp, and it 
is also made into a roof for the huts, or into a tent 
for him to live in. It is also cut into long thin 
bits, and made into a kind of rope. The fat is 
made into oil, to burn in a lamp, or to eat, or fry 
fish in; and the hair is now and then made into 
beds ; but the Lapp does not like this kind of bed 
so well as one made of the skin. The hoof, horn, 
and bone of the Rein Deer are all used, also, in 
many ways that I can not tell you of now. 
At that time of the year when it is one long day, 
a kind of gad-fl}^, or gnat, will bite the poor Rein 
Deer so much, that the herd has to go up to some 
hill, for this fly will only live in a low land. When 
the dark part of the year h come, the Rein Deer 
find a kind of moss to eat that will grow in the 
snow. 
The Lapp is very fond of his Rein Deer, and, ii 
he is rich, has more than one herd of them ; he is 
sure to have four or five if he is ever so poor. 
