Little Folks of North America

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Wade Mary Hazelton Blanchard. Little Folks of North America

Foreword

CHAPTER I. Little Folks of Iceland

CHAPTER II. Little Folks of Greenland

CHAPTER III. Little Folks of Alaska

CHAPTER IV. Little Folks of Canada

CHAPTER V. Little Folks of Labrador

CHAPTER VI. Little Folks of Newfoundland

CHAPTER VII. Little Folks of the United States

CHAPTER VIII. Little Folks of Mexico

CHAPTER IX. Little Folks of Central America

CHAPTER X. Little Folks of the West Indies

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In the far northeast corner of North America lies the island of Iceland where little Danish children live far from the rest of the world. It is very cold in that northern country, yet the presence of volcanoes there and the lava that spreads over much of the country tell the story that ages ago the island was slowly built up from the lava that flowed from volcanoes rising up out of the bed of the ocean.

However that may be, the boys and girls of Iceland are happy little people who laugh and sing, dance and play as merrily as children who live where the sun shines all the year round and the seasons chase each other so rapidly that Mother Nature is constantly preparing new delights for them.

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It may be that in a short time a seal’s nose will appear at this hole to get a breath of fresh air, or perhaps hours will pass before this happens.

At last the watching hunter is rewarded. He thrusts his lance suddenly down through the hole, and if he has made no mistake it has pierced the seal below. The lance disappears under the ice, but the hunter has taken care to fasten leather lines to the blunt end, and this he holds tightly in his hands.

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