At last the old woman swore to have revenge, and in order to do this she commanded her boy to step into a puddle which had formed in their miserable dwelling. No sooner had he obeyed than he was transformed into a healthy young seal. His coat was so beautiful and glossy that it attracted the attention of all the villagers, who watched him basking on a piece of ice near the shore. Then the kayaks were launched, and each Eskimo began to paddle furiously in the direction of the young seal, which could see the cruel-looking harpoons always carried by the hunter. Nearer and nearer they came, then the baby seal slipped gently from the ice and disappeared beneath the surface of the cold green sea. Presently he came up to breathe, and at the same time noticed with pleasure that all the kayaks were being swiftly paddled in his direction. So diving once more, he headed for a most dangerous piece of water, where heavy green seas were breaking, and huge pieces of ice were floating about, dashing together with a crunching noise. Excited by the chase, these Eskimo hunters had no thought of danger, and so little Kiviung, in the form of a seal, led them into the perilous position from which no one escaped. Once among the billows and blocks of ice, these frail kayaks, made of skin stretched over a frame of whalebone, were tossed about and dashed against the ice until not one of them remained on the surface, and the hunters, after a few feeble struggles in the ice-cold water, sank down and down into the regions inhabited by fierce Kalopaling. The agile little seal used his tail and strong flappers to good advantage, and presently landed safely at a point where the old witch, his grandmother, was waiting to restore him to human form. This severe lesson had a good effect on the remaining inhabitants of the Eskimo encampment, and never again were they inclined to be cruel and unkind to those who were weaker and poorer than themselves. BOOKS FOR SCHOOL REFERENCE LIBRARY _British Museum Guide Book to Ethnographical Collections._ _Native Races of the British Empire_, “British North America,” by C. HILL-TOUT. (Constable & Co. Ltd., 1907.) _The Central Eskimo_, by FRANZ BOAS. See Annual Reports of American Bureau for Ethnology, for information concerning Indian and Eskimo Tribes. (Washington, U.S.A.) _Legends of Vancouver_, by E. PAULINE JOHNSON. (Sunset Press. Vancouver, B.C.) Transcriber’s Notes In a few places, missing periods at the end of sentences have been added. Some illustrations have been relocated to a more appropriate place in the text.