Tales the Eskimos tell, selected and retold . d said, Tellyour people not to be afraid. The walrus andthe caribou will no longer hurt the Eskimo. 11 After that the Eskimo people had notrouble in hunting the walrus and the caribou,for Superguksoak kept her promise. What doyou think she did? She took away the tusksfrom the caribou and gave them to the walrus,and from the walrus she took the antlers andgave them to the caribou. Then she said to the caribou, ^*Go inlandand stay there unless I call you. When shewants to bring game for the Eskimo huntersshe calls **Kaite, kaite! and the caribou come
Tales the Eskimos tell, selected and retold . d said, Tellyour people not to be afraid. The walrus andthe caribou will no longer hurt the Eskimo. 11 After that the Eskimo people had notrouble in hunting the walrus and the caribou,for Superguksoak kept her promise. What doyou think she did? She took away the tusksfrom the caribou and gave them to the walrus,and from the walrus she took the antlers andgave them to the caribou. Then she said to the caribou, ^*Go inlandand stay there unless I call you. When shewants to bring game for the Eskimo huntersshe calls **Kaite, kaite! and the caribou come. 12 THE SEA PIGEONS Once upon a time some children wereplaying on a high cliff, overlooking the were playing a very noisy game and thesound of their shouting and laughing could beheard very far away. The sea below them was covered with iceand while the children were playing it wide crack between the ice and the landwas filled with seals. «i Look, look!* said a hunter. Let ushurry. We shall kill many seals. This is 13 So the hunters ran quickly to get theirkayaks, thinking that they would kill manyseals. The children did not see the crack in theice, nor the seals near the shore. They heardthe excited voices of the men. But they said,**Let us not stop our game. It is nothing.* Sothey went right on playing, screaming andlaughing as they played. When the men came to the crack in theice the seals were gone—not one was left—they had been frightened away by the noisychildren. The men were very angry. Theyclimbed up to the top of the cliff where thechildren were still screaming at the top oftheir voices. Stop your noisy game!* said one of themen. **You have brought ill luck to the villagetoday. **You are bad-hearted children, said another. **You should go hungry. See that 14 crack in the ice, you foolish ones! Not longago there were enough seals in the crack togive us meat and fur for many moons. Torn-garsoak has sent them, and now your scream-ing has f
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