Wade Mary Hazelton Blanchard. Our Little Eskimo Cousin
Preface
CHAPTER I. BABY DAYS
CHAPTER II. MOTHER AND CHILD
CHAPTER III. PLAY-DAYS
CHAPTER IV. DOG TEAM AND SLEDGE
CHAPTER V. KAYAK AND HARPOON
CHAPTER VI. THE SEAL HUNT
CHAPTER VII. FEAST AND FUN
CHAPTER VIII. HARD TIMES
CHAPTER IX. AN ESKIMO CHRISTMAS
CHAPTER X. SUMMER TRAVELS
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A pair of very bright black eyes peered out from the mother's hood that winter morning. The thermometer, if there had been one, would have shown the temperature to be seventy degrees below the freezing point.
Yet baby Etu did not seem to care. He was nestled so warmly in the heavy furs, and felt so safe on his mother's broad back, that he laughed and crowed in pure delight.
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Baby Etu's skin was much whiter than his mother's, – very nearly as white, in fact, as your own little brother's. Why has he changed so much since he has grown to be a big boy? Listen to the strange reason.
When our Eskimo cousin was born, there was a small dark spot on his back. Day by day it grew larger; the change came very slowly, so slowly it could scarcely be noticed. But at last the darker colour had spread over the boy's whole body, till his skin was nearly like that of his father and mother.
