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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: AGOONACK, THE ESQUIMAU SISTER, AND HOW SHE LIYED THROUGH THE LONG DARKNESS. What is this odd-looking mound of stone ? It looks like the great brick oven that used to be in our old kitchen, where, when I was a little girl, I saw the fine large loaves of bread and the pies and puddings pushed carefully in with a long, flat shovel, or drawn out with the same when the heat had browned them nicely. Is this an oven standing out here alone in the snow ? You will laugh when I tell you that it is not an oven, but a house; and here lives little Agoonack. Do you see that low opening, close to the ground ? That is the door; but one must creep on hands and knees to enter. There is another smaller hole above the door: it is the window. It has no glass, as ours do; only a thin covering ofsomething which Agoonack's father took from the inside of a seal, and her mother stretched over the window-hole, to keep out the cold and to let in a little light. Here lives our little girl; not as the brown baby does, among the trees and the flowers, but far up in the cold countries, amid snow and ice. If we look off now, over the ice, we shall see a funny little clumsy thing, running along as fast as its short, stout legs will permit, trying to keep up with its mother. You would hardly know it to be a little girl, but might rather call it a white bear's cub; it is so oddly dressed in the white, shaggy coat of the bear which its father killed last month. But this is really Agoonack; and you can see her round, fat, greasy little face, if you throw back the white jumper-hood which covers her head. Shall I tell you what clothes she wears ? - Not at all like yours, you will say; but, when one lives in cold countries, one must dress accordingly. First, she has socks, soft and warm;...