Soon the fog lifted and the sky grew clear.
Monnie was playing with her doll in the igloo, when she heard
Tooky bark. She knew it was Tooky at once. She and Koolee both
plunged into the tunnel like mice down a mouse hole. Nip and Tup
were ahead of them.
Outside they found Koko's mother and the baby. Koolee called to
her, and she called to the wives of the Angakok, who were
scraping a bear's skin in the snow.
The Angakok's wives, and Koko's mother and her baby, and Koolee,
and Monnie, and Nip and Tup all ran to meet the hunters, and you
never saw two prouder boys than Koko and Menie when they showed
the reindeer to their mothers.
The mothers were proud of their young hunters, too. Koolee said,
"Soon we shall have another man in our family."
When they were quite near the village again, they met the
Angakok. He had been trying to catch up with them and he was out
of breath from running. He looked at them sternly.
"Why didn't you call me?" he panted.
His wives looked frightened and didn't say a word. Nobody else
said anything. The Angakok glared at them all for a moment. Then
he poked the reindeer with his fingers to see if it was fat and
said to the men, "Which portion am I to have?"
"Would you like the liver?" asked Kesshoo. He remembered about
the bear's liver, you see.
But the Angakok looked offended. "Who will have the stomach?" he
said. "You know very well that the stomach is the best part of a
reindeer."
"Take the stomach, by all means, then," said Kesshoo, politely.
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