We could hear a great talking and urging going on inside.

After a while, when we had gone to move the _oomiak_ round so as to form one side of a sort of fort, they stole out, and came reluctantly along, the man following them, apparently to keep them from escaping.

Seeing them approaching, Kit and Wade went to meet them, smiling and bowing, and pointing to the walrus-skins.

They knew what was wanted, and fell to work to sew the two hides together, occasionally casting shy eyes toward us.

What amused us was, that each was the exact counterpart of the other.