ar and plunged the lance
into his side. The lance pierced the bear's heart. He groaned, fell to
the ground, rolled over, and was still.

Then how everybody ran! Koko's mother had her baby in her hood, where
Eskimo mothers always carry their babies. She could not run so fast as
the others. The Angakok was fat, so he could not keep up, but he
waddled along as fast as he could.

"Hurry, hurry," he called to his wives. "Bespeak one of his hind legs
for me."

Menie and Monnie and Koko had such short legs they could not go very
fast either, so they ran along with the Angakok, and Koko's mother, and
Nip and Tup.

When they reached the bear they found all the other people crowded
around it. Each one stuck his fingers in the bear's blood and then
sucked his fingers. This was because they wanted all bears to know how
they longed to kill them. As each one tasted the blood he called out
the part of the bear he would like to have.

The wives of the Angakok cried, "Give a hind leg to the Angakok."

"The kidneys for Koko," cried Koko's mother when she stuck in her
finger. "That will make him a great bear-hunter when he is big."

"And I will have the skin for the twins' bed," said their mother.

Kesshoo promised each one the part he asked for. An Eskimo never keeps
the game he kills for himself alone. Every one in the village has a
share.

The bear was very large. He was so large that though all the women
pulled together they could not drag the body back to the village. The
men laughed at them, but they did not help them.

So Koolee ran back for their sledge and harnesses for the dogs. Koko
and Menie helped her catch the dogs and hitch them to the sledge.

It took some time to catch them for the dogs did not want to work. They
all ran away, and Tooky, the leader of the team, pretended to be sick!
Tooky was the mother of Nip and Tup, and she was a very clever dog.
While Koolee and Koko and Menie were getting the sledge and dog-team
ready, the rest of the women set to work with their queer crooked
knives to take off the bear's skin. The moon set, and the sky was red
with the colors of the dawn before this was done.

At last the meat was cut in pieces and Kesshoo and Koko's father held
the dogs while the women heaped it on the sledge. The dogs wanted the
meat. They jumped and howled and tried to get away.

When everything was ready, Koolee cracked the whip at the dogs. Tooky
ran ahead to her place as leader, the other dogs