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.

II.

When the rest of the meat was taken care of, Koolee took the bear's
head and carried it into the igloo.

All the people followed her. Then Koolee did a queer thing. She placed
the head on a bench, with the nose pointing toward the Big Rock,
because the bear had come from that direction. Then she stopped up the
nostrils with moss and grease. She greased the bear's mouth, too.

"Bears like grease," she said. "And if I stop up his nose like that
bears will never be able to smell anything. Then the hunters can get
near and kill them before they know it." You see Koolee was a great
believer in signs and in magic. All the other people were too.

She called to the twins, "Come here, Menie and Monnie."

The twins had come in with the others, but they were so short they were
out of sight in the crowd. They crawled under the elbows of the grown
people and stood beside Koolee.

"Look, children," she said to them, "your grandfather, who is dead,
sent you this bear. He wants you to send him something. In five days
the bear's spirit will go to the land where your grandfather's spirit
lives. What would you like to have the bear's spirit take to your
grandfather for a gift?"

"I'll send him the little fish that father carved for me out of bone,"
said Menie. He squirmed through the crowd and got it from a corner of
his bed and brought it to his mother. She put it on the bear's head.

Monnie gave her a leather string with a lucky stone tied to it. Koolee
put that on the bear's head too.

Then she said, "There! In five days' time the bear's spirit will give
the shadows of these things to your grandfather. Then we can eat the
head, but not until we are sure the bear's spirit has reached the home
of the Dead."

"That is well," the Angakok said to the twins, when Koolee had
finished. "Your grandfather will be pleased with your presents, I know.
Your grandfather was a just man. I knew him well. He always paid great
respect to me. Whenever he brought a bear home he