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frame. A feat which could only have been done by the united force of several of the villagers. The visitors now entered a house & were welcomed. They remained here for some time the man taking his place among the men in Cashim.

The man was very fond of his little son and one sad day as the latter was playing outside a savage dog bit him so severely as to kill him. The father in a rage caught the dog by the tail by one hand and struck it so hard against a post that the dog fell in two halves. Then the father prepared with great sorrow a handsome box for his son by which he placed the latters various toys &c and then retired to his house and refrained from all work for four days at the end of which he packed up his sled and with his wife bade 


farewell to the sorrowful villagers, who had come to like them very much, and retraced their old road. [[strikethrough]] Since [[/strikethrough]] Before this the villagers had always had the bottom of their sleds formed of long strips extending fore and aft but the dwarf's sled had the bottom of numerous cross pieces which struck their eye and since then their sleds have been thus built. Up to this time the villagers had always cast their dead out upon the tundra as food to the dogs and other animals but [[strikethrough]] th [[/strikethrough]] after seeing the dwarf make the box for his son and strew various things around they followed his example as well in the four days mourning as in making boxes for the dead. Since then the dwarfs or others like them have been seen from time to time upon the tundra 

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