[Out of the Triangle by Mary E. Bamford]@TWC D-Link bookOut of the Triangle CHAPTER VIII 167/182
Quang lifted his heavy baskets on his pole. "Goo' by," he said. "Say--Quang Po," burst out Jo, "I'm sorry! I won't bother you any more! I won't let the other boys do it, either! I can stop it." Quang Po smiled. "Me glad you solly," he said.
"We be good flends, now." And he trotted away, the heavy baskets creaking. Jo looked after him. "And I thought you were the heathen!" he whispered. THE NEW IGLOO. The sky was lowering.
The small storm-"igloo," or round-topped snow house, was full of Eskimo dogs that had crowded in to shelter themselves from the bitter wind.
This small igloo was built in front of the door of a bigger round igloo in which an Eskimo family lived. The dogs' small igloo was built where it was, to keep the wind and the cold from coming in at the family's igloo door. Over the snowy ground a boy, clad in a reindeer coat, came running. His brown cheeks were flushed, and his black eyes were bright with excitement.
His lips curved and parted over his white teeth as he chuckled happily to himself about something.
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