. The second jungle book. QUIQUERN The People of the Eastern Ice, they are melting like the snow—They beg for coffee and sugar; they go where the white men People of the Western Ice, they learn to steal and fight :They sell their furs to the trading-post : they sell their soul to the white. The People of the Southern Ice, they trade with the whalers crew ; Their women have many ribbons, but their tents are torn and few. But the People of the Elder Ice, beyond the white mans ken— Their spears are made of the narwhal horn, and they are the last of the Men. ™ , .. I has opene
. The second jungle book. QUIQUERN The People of the Eastern Ice, they are melting like the snow—They beg for coffee and sugar; they go where the white men People of the Western Ice, they learn to steal and fight :They sell their furs to the trading-post : they sell their soul to the white. The People of the Southern Ice, they trade with the whalers crew ; Their women have many ribbons, but their tents are torn and few. But the People of the Elder Ice, beyond the white mans ken— Their spears are made of the narwhal horn, and they are the last of the Men. ™ , .. I has opened his ! * Put him in the skinagain. He will be a strongdog. On the fourth monthwe will name him. For whom ? saidAmoraq. Kadlus eye rolled roundthe skin-lined snow-housetill it came to fourteen yearold Kotuko sitting on thesleeping-bench, making a button out of walrus ivory. Name him for me, QUIQUERN 143 said Kotuko, with a t^rin. I shall need him someone day. Kadlu crrinned back till his eves were almostburied in the fat of his flat cheeks, and nodded toAmoraq, while the puppys fierce mother whined tosee her baby wriggling far from reach in the littlesealskin pouch hung above the warmth of the blubber-lamp. Kotuko went on with his carving, and Kadluthrew a rolled bundle of leather dog-harnesses into atiny little room that opened from one side of thehouse, slipped off his heavy deerskin hunting-suit,put it into a whalebone net that hung above anotherlamp, and dropped down on the sleeping-bench towhittle at a piece of frozen seal-meat till Amoraq, hiswife, should brin
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