Part 13 (1/2)

The an to talk rapidly He waved his hands He bobbed his head At last he arose, sprang froan to walk the space before the open fire He was still talking It seemed as if he would never run down

When at last he had finished and had thrown hi-rooan:

”He say, that one, he say, 'Wanna go Cape Prince Wales two o' He say, that one, 'Wanna go now; never come back' He say, that one, 'Two, three, four days come ice Not plenty ice,' say that one 'Some water, some ice See water Too much water Wanna cross No cross Quick starve Quick freeze'

”'He say, that one, 'Tide crack spirit all-a-time lift ice, push ice this way, that way Wanna kill o'

”He say, that one, 'Great dead whale spirit wanna lift ice, wanna throw ice this way, that way, all way Wanna kill o Cape Prince Wales'

”He say, that one, 'Wanna go Cape Prince Wales, mebby two month, mebby three month Mebby can do Can't tell,' he say, that one”

The college boy sold

”Which all means,” he said, ”that the ice is not sufficiently coether for the old boy to risk a passage, and that we'll be obliged to wait until he thinks it's O K Probably two or three e! Make yourselves at hoh

”Oh!” exclai

”Yes,” smiled the boy, ”but think of the sketches you'll have tiroaned

”That's easy Use squares of this sealskin the wo!” exclaimed Marian She ay at once in search of soerness to be at work on so people, quite forgetting the peril of natives, the danger of the food supply giving out, the probability of an unpleasant er

Lucile, always of a more practical fra comfort and food for her little party The question of a war frost was solved for theed chief Nepos-sok He furnished the type of horeat co of walrus skin was supported by tall poles set in a se at the top The inside of this tepee-like structure was lined with a great circling robe of long-haired deerskin The hair on these winter skins o inches long and , a floor of hand-hewn boards was built across the rear side of the inclosure This floor, about six by eight feet, was covered with a deerskin rug, over which were thrown lighter robes of soft fawn skin and out-of-season fox skins Above this floor were hung curtains of deerskin This sleeping roo-haired deerskins When it was co in it, warm and cozy as a stea so comfortable in a wilderness like this?”

asleep in their new hoiven a place in the chief's sleeping roo rooiven over to stores It was used too as kitchen and dining roo fire of ds, the three of the room floor and munched hardtack or dipped baked beans fro a variety of food was a difficult one The supply from the shi+p was found to be over-abundant in certain lines and woefully lacking in others: plenty of beans and sweet corn in cans, so powder but no lard or bacon; solasses; a hundred pounds of sugar So it ran Lucile was hard pressed to kno to cook with no oven in which to do baking and with no lard for shortening

She had been studying this problem for some time when one day she suddenly exclai on her parka she hurried to the chief's igloo and asked for seal oil Gravely he poured a supply of dark liquid from a wooden container into a tin cup

Lucile put this to her lips for a taste The next instant she with great difficulty set the cup on the floor while all her face was distorted with loathing

”Rotten!” she sputtered ”A year old!”

”Eh--eh,” grinned the chief, ”always eat 'eloo But on her way back she ca the thick layer of fat that was taken from beneath the animal's skin she hastened to trade three cans of beans for it Bearing this ho out over a slow fire

Seal oil proved to be quite as good cooking oil as lard Even doughnuts fried in it were pronounced delicious by the ever-hungry Phi

Experi Seal steak was not bad, and seal liver was as good as calf's liver Polar bear steak and walrus steere ier,” was Phi's verdict The boiled flipper of a white-whale was tender as chicken But when a hind quarter of reindeerindeed

In a land so little known as this one does not seek long for opportunities to express strange and unusual things Marian had not been established a ith Lucile in their igloo, when an unusual opportunity presented itself

Aht from the shi+p was found a well-equippedvisits in out-of-the-way places, Marian had learnedsie three days before her fae

She had learned, with a feeling of great relief, that the bearded stranger who had posed as a witch-doctor had gone away fro, or south to soe, no one appeared to kno that he had departed, it seemed obvious that she was destined to take his place as the village practitioner