It was easy for Papik to get dressed. First he pulled on his pants made of baby sealskin, with the soft, white hair on the inside. Next he put on his deerskin stockings and his slippers of bird-skin with the feathers inside. Over these he drew a second slipper of sealskin and his waterproof sealskin boots. [Illustration: ~Papik wore these clothes in winter. His mother sewed good luck charms into them.~] Finally Papik slipped his jacket over his head. He even had his cap on because it was made right into his jacket. Papik didn't have to fuss with buttons or zippers. He just tied an animal-skin thong around each leg to hold the tops of his boots up. Now he was dressed in his underclothes--which were also his summer outfit. To go outdoors in winter, he put on an extra pair of pants and an extra jacket made of deerskin with the hair outside. These, with deerskin boots and mittens, were all the clothes he needed for a trip out over the ice with his father. [Illustration: ~His mother's jacket was extra large so she could carry his baby brother inside it on her back.~] Each mitten looks as if it had two thumbs--and it had. Papik's mother made them that way so that he could turn them around without taking them off and wear them backwards if he got one side wet. Papik's sister Milak wore clothes almost exactly like his. The grownups did, too. When white men came to the Arctic, they found Eskimo clothes were better for winter there than anything else that could be made. [Illustration: ~Eskimos lighted their lamps by striking sparks from stones called flint and pyrite.~] INSIDE THE IGLOO Papik and Milak had no regular bedtime. They slept when they were sleepy. Lamps burned in their house all the time to give heat as well as light. An Eskimo lamp worked in the cleverest kind of way. It was made of soapstone--a soft stone that could be hollowed out into a bowl. This bowl was filled with oil which came from seal fat, called blubber. Along one side of the bowl ran a little ridge of moss. This was the lamp's wick. [Illustration: ~A cooking pot hung above the lamp. The rack was for drying clothes.~] When the wick was lighted, it burned with a hot, white, steady flame. The children's mother watched it and was careful that it never smoked. To keep the lamp filled, she put a chunk of blubber near the flame. As the flame burned it kept melting oil out of the blubber, and the oil kept oozing down into the bowl where the wick soaked it up. The lamp never ran over and never ran dry. [Illustration: ~Eskimos never scolded their children for waking them up.~]