THE REIN DEER. 
If you will look at the wood-cut at the top of this 
page, you will see what a Rein Deer is like, and 
what sort of a man a Lapp is. The Lapp does not 
live near us ; his home is in a very cold land, a 
long way off. In that land, for one half of the 
year, the sun does not rise, and all that time it 
is dark, and very cold, with deep snow and ice. 
Then, when at last the sun does rise, he will not 
set for the rest of the year, and all that time it is 
day. When the dark time of the year is come, 
and there is no sun, if the moon is at the full, it is 
very nice for the Lapp to ride over the snow ; for 
the Rein Deer will draw him so fast that no one 
can keep up with him, and will run on at this rate 
for a long time. I can not tell you all the uses the 
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