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ANIMAL STORIES FROM ESKIMO LAND
“‘Who are you?’ said the boy.”
FOREWORD
The Eskimos are a kindly, industrious, smiling people. To our way ofthinking their lives are uncivilized and cheerless. And yet, in theirown primitive way, they find much happiness in life. They live from onemoment only to the next. When food is plentiful, they gorge. When sealsand game are scarce, they patiently do without.
Eskimo children never cry. They are never punished by their parents, forthe spirits which inhabit their little bodies might take offense anddepart. They play happy games as do children the world over, with ballssewed together from reindeer or seal hides and with toys carved fromivory, bone or wood.
The people are courteous and considera