When everything was ready, Koolee cracked the whip at the dogs.
Tooky ran ahead to her place as leader, the other dogs began to
pull, and the whole procession started back to the village,
leaving a great red stain on the clean white snow where the bear
had been killed.
Last of all came the twins and Koko. They had loaded the bear's
skin on Menie's sled.
"It's a woman's work to pull the meat home. We men just do the
hunting and fishing," Menie said to Koko. They had heard the men
say that.
"Yes, we found the bear," Koko answered. "Monnie can pull the
skin home."
And though Monnie had found the bear just as much as they had,
she didn't say a word. She just pulled away on the sled, and they
all reached the igloo together just as the round red sun came up
out of the sea, and threw long blue shadows far across the fields
of snow.
II. KOOLEE DIVIDES THE MEAT
KOOLEE DIVIDES THE MEAT
I.
The first thing that was done after they got the sledge back to
the village was to feed the dogs. The dogs were very hungry; they
had smelled the fresh meat for a long time without so much as a
bite of it, and they had had nothing to eat for two whole days.
They jumped about and howled again and got their harnesses
dreadfully tangled.
Kesshoo unharnessed them and gave them some bones, and while they
were crunching them and quarreling among themselves, Koolee
crawled into the igloo and brought out a bowl. The bowl was made
of a hollowed-out stone, and it had water in it.
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