"This is for a charm," said Koolee. "If you each take a sip of
water from this bowl my son will always have good luck in spying
bears!"
She passed the bowl around, and each person took a sip of the
water. When Menie's turn came he took a big, big mouthful,
because he wanted to be very brave, indeed, and find a bear every
week. But he was in too much of a hurry. The water went down his
"Sunday-throat" and choked him! He coughed and strangled and his
face. grew red. Koolee thumped him on the back.
"That's a poor beginning for a great bear-hunter," she said.
Everybody laughed at Menie. Menie hated to be laughed at. He went
away and found Nip and Tup. They wouldn't laugh at him, he knew.
He thought he liked dogs better than people anyway.
Nip and Tup were trying to get their noses into the circle with
the other dogs, but the big dogs snapped at them and drove them
away, so Menie got some scraps and fed them.
Meanwhile Koolee stood by the sledge and divided the meat among
her neighbors. First she gave one of the hind legs to the wives
of the Angakok, because he always had to have the best of
everything. She gave the kidneys to Koko's mother. To each one
she gave just the part she had asked for. When each woman had
been given her share, Kesshoo took what was left and put it on
the storehouse.
The storehouse wasn't really a house at all. It was just a great
stone platform standing up on legs, like a giant's table. The
meat was placed on the top of it, so the dogs could not reach it,
no matter how high they jumped.
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