e kicked out behind with his feet. His wives backed hastily, to get
out of the way. That made them bump into Koko's mother who was just
behind them. Her baby was in her hood, and when she backed, the baby's
head was bumped on the roof of the tunnel.

The baby began to roar. In the tunnel it sounded like a clap of
thunder. The wives of the Angakok and Koko's mother all began to talk
at once, and with that and the baby's crying I suppose there never was
a tunnel that held so much noise. It all came into the igloo, and it
sounded quite frightful. The twins crept into the farthest corner of
the sleeping bench and watched their father and mother and the Angakok,
with their eyes almost popping out of their heads.

Nip and Tup thought they would help a little, so they jumped off the
bench; and barked at the Angakok. You see, they didn't know he was a
great medicine man. They thought maybe he ought not to be there at all.

Nip even snapped at the Angakok's ear!

That made the Angakok more angry than ever. He reached into the room,
seized Nip with one hand and flung him up on to the sleeping bench. Nip
lit on top of Menie. Nip was very much surprised, and so was Menie.

Now, whether the jerk he gave in throwing Nip did it or not, I cannot
say, but at that instant Kesshoo and Koolee both gave a great pull in
front. At the same moment the two wives gave a great push behind, and
the next moment after that, there was the Angakok, still red, and still
angry, sitting on the edge of the sleeping bench in the best place near
the fire!

Then his two wives came crawling through. The Angakok looked at them as
if he thought they had made him stick in the tunnel, and had done it on
purpose, too. The wives scuttled up on to the sleeping bench, and got
into the farthest corner of it as fast as they could.

The women and children always sat back on the bench at a feast.

When Koko's mother came in, the baby was still crying. She climbed up
on to the bed with him, and Menie and Monnie showed him the pups and
that made the baby laugh again.

As fast as they came in, the women and children packed themselves away
on the sleeping bench. The men sat along the edge of it with their feet
on the floor.

II.

The smell of food soon made everybody cheerful. When at last they were
all crowded into the room, Koolee placed the bear's head and other pans
of meat on the floor.

Then she crawled back on to the bench with the other women.

The