travel: automobile, 27, 53, 67 boats, 12, 14, 67, 73 dog sleds, 182, 186 on mountain roads, 62-3, 51, 67 railways, 12, 51, 97 cariole, 51 skis, 120-1, 181 trees: birds’ Christmas, 109 birch, 15, 38 fir, 38, 108, 112 juniper, 38 most northern, 9 pine, 112 spruce, 108, 112 Viking (vī´kĭng or vīk´ĭng): boats, 2, 163, 165, 174-6 boy, 172-8 custom of “name fastening,” 172-3 how named, 165 modern, 169-71 tales of, 165-9 waterfalls, 32 wind on flat lands, 125-6 windmills, 74 wood, uses of, 8, 36, 93-4, 103 woodcutters, 34 Yule-tide, 33, 107-11 Yule-tree, 1, 33, 108-9 End of Project Gutenberg's Near the Top of the World, by Nelle E. Moore