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LITTLE WHITE FOX AND HIS ARCTIC FRIENDS




[Illustration: "Such ugly, bent noses I never saw before in all my life,
either." FRONTISPIECE. _See Page 21_]




      LITTLE WHITE FOX
   AND HIS ARCTIC FRIENDS


             BY

        ROY J. SNELL


   WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
       GEORGE F. KERR


          [Device]


           BOSTON
 LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
            1916




       _Copyright, 1916_,
 BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.
      _All rights reserved_

   Published, September, 1916




CONTENTS


 CHAPTER                                             PAGE

     I. LITTLE WHITE FOX MAKES A DISCOVERY              1

    II. LITTLE MISS PTARMIGAN FOOLS HIM                 9

   III. HE GETS HIS HEAD THUMPED                       19

    IV. WHEN LITTLE FOXES QUARREL                      27

     V. LITTLE WHITE FOX MEETS BARRED SEAL             34

    VI. LITTLE WHITE FOX HELPS HIMSELF                 41

   VII. LITTLE WHITE BEAR AND LITTLE BLACK BEAR        48

  VIII. TROUBLE FOR LITTLE WHITE BEAR                  54

    IX. LITTLE BLACK BEAR'S DISCOVERY                  61

     X. FUN FOR TWO LITTLE BEARS                       67

    XI. BIG WHITE BEAR MEETS HUSKIE                    74

   XII. LITTLE WHITE FOX GOES HUNTING                  83

  XIII. BIG WHITE BEAR'S KITCHEN                       89

   XIV. BIG WHITE BEAR FINDS LITTLE WHITE FOX          95

    XV. LITTLE WHITE FOX GOES FISHING                 101

   XVI. LITTLE BROWN SEAL'S NARROW ESCAPE             108

  XVII. A STRANGE JOURNEY                             115

 XVIII. LITTLE WHITE FOX COMES HOME                   122




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS


 "Such ugly, bent noses I never saw before in all
     my life, either."                                  _Frontispiece_

 "Now," he said, when he had finished fishing, "we
     will have dinner."                                       PAGE  38

 Little White Bear knew right away what he had done.            "   52

 "I am going to make your teeth chatter so you can't
     call your master."                                         "   81

 Big White Bear popped right up out of the ocean!               "  119

 She was going back to his own dear beach.                      "  128




ACKNOWLEDGMENT


Six of the Little White Fox Stories appeared serially in the
_Continent_, to whose publishers my thanks are due for permission to
publish them in book form.




LITTLE WHITE FOX AND HIS ARCTIC FRIENDS




CHAPTER I

LITTLE WHITE FOX MAKES A DISCOVERY


Little White Fox was very, very much worried, for something dreadful had
happened, something he couldn't account for at all: Tdariuk, the
reindeer, was dead!

Tdariuk was not related to Little White Fox. And he wasn't a bit in the
world like him. He was many times bigger than Little White Fox would
ever be, and he was quite different from him in every way. But all the
same, Little White Fox loved him. If you had asked him why he loved the
big reindeer, he would probably have told you that, for one thing,
Tdariuk, in spite of his huge body, was very gentle and kind. None of
the little animals of the tundra was afraid of him. Little Mrs.
Ptarmigan calmly hunted for dry blueberries and weed seed right beside
him while he cropped his moss. And when he drew close to the shore by
the sea, Little Brown Seal never thought of such a thing as slipping off
his rock and hiding in the water. Even if there were no other reason,
wouldn't Tdariuk's gentleness alone make Little White Fox love him?

Now when Little White Fox discovered that his big, kind friend was dead,
he ran home as fast as his legs could carry him to tell his mother the
sad news.

"Mother! Mother!" he called tumbling into his home under the great rock,
"Tdariuk is dead!"

"Tdariuk dead!" cried Madam White Fox. "Who could have been mean enough
to kill him?"

"I don't know who killed him, but he's dead, I know that," said Little