Kadlu , being a good hunter , was rich in iron harpoons , snow-knives , bird-darts , and all the other things that make life easy up there in the great cold ; and he was the head of his tribe , or , as they say , `` the man who knows all about it by practice . '' This did not give him any authority , except now and then he could advise his friends to change their hunting-grounds ; but Kotuko used it to domineer a little , in the lazy , fat Inuit fashion , over the other boys , when they came out at night to play ball in the moonlight , or to sing the Child 's Song to the Aurora Borealis . But at fourteen an Inuit feels himself a man , and Kotuko was tired of making snares for wild-fowl and kit-foxes , and most tired of all of helping the women to chew seal-and deer-skins -LRB- that supples them as nothing else can -RRB- the long day through , while the men were out hunting . He wanted to go into the quaggi , the Singing-House , when the hunters gathered there for their mysteries , and the angekok , the sorcerer , frightened them into the most delightful fits after the lamps were put out , and you could hear the Spirit of the Reindeer stamping on the roof ; and when a spear was thrust out into the open black night it came back covered with hot blood . He wanted to throw his big boots into the net with the tired air of the head of a family , and to gamble with the hunters when they dropped in of an evening and played a sort of home-made roulette with a tin pot and a nail . There were hundreds of things that he wanted to do , but the grown men laughed at him and said , `` Wait till you have been in the buckle , Kotuko . Hunting is not ALL catching . '' Now that his father had named a puppy for him , things looked brighter . An Inuit does not waste a good dog on his son till the boy knows something of dog-driving ; and Kotuko was more than sure that he knew more than everything . If the puppy had not had an iron constitution he would have died from over-stuffing and over-handling . Kotuko made him a tiny harness with a trace to it , and hauled him all over the house-floor , shouting : `` Aua ! Ja aua ! '' -LRB- Go to the right -RRB- . `` Choiachoi ! Ja choiachoi ! '' -LRB- Go to the left -RRB- . `` Ohaha ! '' -LRB- Stop -RRB- . The puppy did not like it at all , but being fished for in this way was pure happiness beside being put to the sleigh for the first time . He just sat down on the snow , and played with the seal-hide trace that ran from his harness to the pitu , the big thong in the bows of the sleigh .
Then the team started , and the puppy found the heavy ten-foot sleigh running up his back , and dragging him along the snow , while XXXXX laughed till the tears ran down his face .
Aua Borealis Kotuko bird-darts choiachoi deer-skins dog-driving left over-stuffing right