Tales the Eskimos tell, selected and retold . s up and runs away,leaving the hunter holding the skin.) Stop—you are dead, I have killed you! Dead seals that are skinned 19 Do not run away from their hunters! Now I have only the skin, It is not so fine as I thought. No! Now it seems worthless and poor, Not fit for a maiden like Millak.(He throws down the skin in disgust. Then hescratches his head as if very much puzzled. Atthis point the Eskimo audience smiles delight-edly.) Great sadness is mine and great wonder . . Why did the Torngak not help me? Perhaps I was greedy and proud. Oh, Torngak,
Tales the Eskimos tell, selected and retold . s up and runs away,leaving the hunter holding the skin.) Stop—you are dead, I have killed you! Dead seals that are skinned 19 Do not run away from their hunters! Now I have only the skin, It is not so fine as I thought. No! Now it seems worthless and poor, Not fit for a maiden like Millak.(He throws down the skin in disgust. Then hescratches his head as if very much puzzled. Atthis point the Eskimo audience smiles delight-edly.) Great sadness is mine and great wonder . . Why did the Torngak not help me? Perhaps I was greedy and proud. Oh, Torngak, my grief and my sorrow Make heavy my heart with great sadness. (Millak is lovely—she is not mine.) Torngak, be with me . . Tears wet my cheeks. Sorry I am for my badness— I will not boast nor be greedy, Torngak, be with me! 20 THE STORY OF THEFOX WOMAN Once there was a man who had lost hiswife. When he came home from hunting hehad to cook his own meat. He had to take careof his own boots and do all the work that hiswife used to 21 What shall I do/* he said, *Vhen myboots wear out? I shall not have time to makenew ones, for I must go to hunt when the timeis right. So he asked his torngak to help him, andthe torngak said, Take some very small bootsand hang them on the back of your them always and your boots will neverwear out. So the Eskimo took some dolFs boots andhung them on the back of his dicky, and hisboots never wore out. By and by the Eskimo became tired ofcooking his own meat and doing all the thingshis wife used to do, so he said to his torngak,Please help me. I am very tired. When I amcold and hungry I do not like to cook my ownfood. I cannot do a mans work and a womansas well. 22 The torngak said he would help, and hedid. After that when the Eskimo came homefrom hunting he found that the work was alldone, jtlst as his wife would have done was no one inside the house and notracks outside. The Eskimo could not under-stand this and he made
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