he was terribly frightened. Nip and Tup
cuddled close to him and whined with fear.

Menie understood perfectly well that he might be carried far out to sea
and never come back any more. He put his hands to his mouth and yelled
with all his might!

Koko was still following the birds, and did not hear Menie's cries.
Menie could see him running up the beach after the birds, and he could
see his father working over his kyak near his home.

He even saw Monnie come out of the tunnel and go to watch her father at
his work. They seemed very far away, and every moment the distance
between them and the raft grew greater.

Menie screamed again and again. At the third scream he saw his father
straighten up, shade his eyes with his hand, and look out to sea.

"Oh," Menie thought. "What if he shouldn't see me!" He shouted louder
than ever! He waved his arms! He even pinched the tails of Nip and Tup
and made them bark. Then he saw his father wave his hand and dive into
the tunnel.

In another instant he was out again and pulling on his skin coat. Then
he took the kyak on his shoulders and ran with it to the beach. Monnie
and Koolee came running after him.

They were doing the screaming now! Every one in the village heard the
screams and came running down to the beach, too.

When Menie saw his father coming with the kyak, he wasn't afraid any
more, for he was sure his father would save him. He wasn't even afraid
about the cakes of ice that were floating in the water, though there is
nothing more dangerous than to go out in a kyak among ice floes. One
bump from a floating cake of ice is enough to upset any boat, and I
don't like to think of what might happen if a kyak should get between
two big cakes of ice.

Kesshoo ran with his kyak as far as he could on the ice. Then he got in
and fitted the bottom of his skin jacket over the kyak hole and
carefully slid himself into the open water.

Once in the water, how his paddle flew!

It seemed to Menie as if his father would never reach him! He sat very
still on the ice pan with the dead seal beside him, and Nip and Tup
huddled up against him.

At last Kesshoo came near enough so he could make Menie hear everything
he said. "Menie," he cried, "if you do exactly what I tell you to, I
can save you.

"I will throw you my harpoon. You must drive it way down into the ice.
Then by the harpoon line I will tow your ice pan back toward shore.
When we get to the big ice I will find a pl