The Snow Baby: A true story with true picturesPeary, Josephine Diebitsch
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The Snow Baby: A true story with true pictures
Peary, Josephine Diebitsch
Arctic regions -- Juvenile literature; Eskimos -- Juvenile literature; Peary, Marie Ahnighito, 1893-1978
He was very fond of AH-NI-GHI´-TO and would try to follow her when she
went in her sledge. How queer he looked with his little round fat face,
bright black eyes, and little short bearskin trousers. Then he would
make little snow igloos, or houses, for her, just like the one his
father and mother had lived in, and would get a whip and try to show her
how he would drive her dogs for her after he got a little larger.
[Illustration: “_Made believe he was a White Boy_”]
Sometimes Kood-Look´-Too would make believe he was a white boy, and
would dress himself up in cast-off clothes, to look, as he thought, like
such a boy.
Whether he succeeded or not you can see for yourself in the picture.
And E-Klay-I-Shoo—or “Miss Bill,” as she was called—must not be
forgotten.
She was an Eskimo girl, about twelve years old, who used to take care of
AH-NI-GHI´-TO.
[Illustration: “_Miss Bill_”]
“Miss Bill” never had a dress or a hat in her life, but dressed in a
sealskin coat, short foxskin trousers, or nannookies, and long-legged
kamiks, or sealskin boots. She and Kood-Look´-Too and her father
Nook-Tal, with the rest of the family, lived in a small round tent, or
tupic, of sealskins, with big stones all around the edge of it, to keep
the wind from blowing it away.
[Illustration: “_A Tupic of Sealskin_”]
The sun kept getting higher in the sky and warmer every day, till
finally it did not set at all day or night, the snow was melting, and
the rocks and ground getting dry. Such a good time as AH-NI-GHI´-TO had
now. Her furs were put away, and in thick, warm woollen gowns, with a
sunbonnet to protect her tender face—for even up here the sun and wind
in summer may burn the skin—she was out doors nearly all the time. She
could creep and roll about a little now, and she had so much to do.
[Illustration: “_In her Gray Gown she looked like a Little Monk_”]
There was the gravel slope back of the house, in which to search for
pretty round red and white pebbles. As she rolled about over this in her
gray gown, she looked like a little monk.
[Illustration: “_There were Lots of Little Puppies to feed and play
with_”]
[Illustration]
There were lots of little puppies to feed and play with, such plump,
round, soft, playful little puppies, you could not believe that when
they grew up, they would be great, strong dogs, who could draw their
masters on a sledge forty and fifty miles in a day, and even fight the
great white polar bear.
There was Hector, the big St. Bernard, who would come to have his head
patted by the baby. She was a little afraid of Hector, however, he was
so big and strong, and rough in his playfulness.
[Illustration: “_Hector, the big St. Bernard_”]
[Illustration: “_To be picked and played with_”]
Finally, there were the flowers, yellow and purple and white, which must
be picked and played with.
[Illustration: “_She rolled about, tossing the Bright Pebbles_”]
[Illustration]
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