"
She took their hands and led them up the slope.
"We're not sleepy," the twins declared.
"I am," said Koolee, "and I want you with me."
They went into the tent, which was not so light as it was out of
doors in the bright sunlight. Then they undressed, crawled in
among the deerskins, and were soon sound asleep, all three of
them. After a while Kesshoo came up from the beach and went to
sleep too.
X. THE SUMMER DAY
THE SUMMER DAY
I.
The summer days flew by, only one really shouldn't say days at
all, but summer day. For three whole bright months it was just
one daylight picnic all the time!
The people ate when they were hungry and slept when they were
sleepy. The men caught hundreds of salmon, and the women split
them open and dried them on the rocks for winter use. The
children played all day long.
The men hunted deer and musk ox and bears up in the hills and
brought them back to camp. They hunted game both by land and by
sea. There was so much to eat that everybody grew fatter, and as
for the Angakok, he got so very fat that Koko said to Menie, "I
don't believe we can ever get the Angakok home in the woman boat!
He's so heavy he'll sink it! I think it would be a good plan to
tie a string to him and tow him back like a walrus!"
"Yes," said Menie. "Maybe he would shrink some if we soaked him
well. Don't you know how water shrinks the walrus hide cords that
we tie around things when we want them to hold tight together?"
It was lucky for Menie and Koko that nobody heard them say that
about the Angakok.
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