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See the long strips of smoked meat hanging on
the walls. Here are dishes of sweet milk also,
and cakes of new cheese. Do you wonder that
the Lapps are kind to their deer? Where do you
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Hammerfest.

Let us look at the boots and at this great hairy
coat. Can you tell what they are made of?
Some of the coats are made of cloth. At night
the children sleep side by side between large
warm. deerskins.

Of course you wish to know what the reindeer
feeds on. In summer it bites off tender shoots
of trees and bushes, but in winter it paws away
the snow to find a little gray plant, called reindeer
moss.

_It has stopped snowing. Now for a ride!
Harness a deer to a sled and away we will fly

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CHUGLU, THE ESKIMO BOY.

time. As early as May the fields are dotted with
pretty flowers, the birds sing sweetly, and later

- the bushes and vines are loaded with berries.

Perhaps you would like to live with the Lapps
who catch salmon and trout in lakes and rivers.
or with those who wander with tents from place
to place, in search of good pastures for their herds
of deer. You would find that the Lapps are very
kind. _

Hammerfest is a town. that the Lapps often
visit. It is the farthest north of all the towns
of Europe. .

Where do the Lapps live?

What are the uses of the reindeer ?

Can you tell some of the sights that Tibbu often sees,
but that the Lapland boys never see?

What would.the Japanese boys. miss if they went to
Lapland to live?

Why does Tibbu not wear clothes like those which the
Lapland boys wear?

If you were to go into.a Lapland hut, what should you
expect to see?

90. Chuglu, the Eskimo Boy.!

Ii we knew the words that little Chuglu uses,
he could tell us a wonderful story about the land
of snow and ice in the far north.

Here is a picture of the hut in which he lives.
It is built of stones, with turf thrown upon it to
keep out the biting wind. The hut is now
covered with snow. During the summer
Chuglu lives in a tent made of deerskins.

The Eskimos are found along the north
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over the snow. How fast we go! Will the fleet

deer never grow weary? His master tells us that
he has driven him a hundred miles in one day.

Should you like to live in Lapland? Do not

_ think that there is snow on the ground all the

near by. They live also along the south-
west shores of Greenland. Find Greenland
on the map, page 105.

When Chuglu was a baby his mother kept him
in a bag of feathers. That was his cradle and his
bed. Day after day he lay in the smoky hut, till
he was old enough to walk, and then his mother
made him a very pretty suit of sealskin clothes.

1 Chuglu was.one of the Eskimos at the World’s Fair
in Chicago. The baby, Columbia, was born on the
World’s Fair grounds.