ad finished, put it
back in his breeches, where he always kept it. When he was hungry,
he would sometimes eat of the dogs' leavings on the ground outside,
finding there walrus hide which even the dogs refused to eat.

He slept among the dogs, and warmed himself up on the roof, in the
warm air from the smoke hole. But whenever Umerdlugtoq saw him warming
himself there, he would haul him down by the nostrils.

Thus a long time passed, and it had been dark in the winter, and was
beginning to grow light near the coming of spring. And now little
Kagssagssuk began to go wandering about the country. Once when he
was out, he met a big man, a giant, who was cutting up his catch,
and on seeing him, Kagssagssuk cried out in a loud voice:

"Ho, you man there, give me a piece of that meat!"

But although he shouted as loudly as he could, that giant could not
hear him. At last a little sound reached the big man's ears, and then
he said:

"Bring me luck, bring me luck!"

And he threw down a little piece of meat on the ground, believing it
was one of the dead who thus asked.

But little Kagssagssuk, who, young as he was, had already some helping
spirits, made that little piece of meat to be a big piece, just as
the dead can do, and ate as much as he could, and when he could eat
no more, there was still so much left that he could hardly drag it
away to hide it.

Some time after this, little Kagssagssuk said to his mother's mother:

"I have by chance become possessed of much meat, and my thoughts will
not leave it. I will therefore go out and look to it."

So he went off to the place where he had hidden it, and lo! it was
not there. And he fell to weeping, and while he stood there weeping,
the giant came up.

"What are you weeping for?"

"I cannot find the meat which I had hidden in a store-place here."

"Ho," said the giant, "I took that meat. I thought it had belonged
to another one."

And then he said again: "Now let us play together." For he felt kindly
towards that boy, and had pity on him.

And they two went off together. When they came to a big stone, the
giant said: "Now let us push this stone." And they began pushing
at the big stone until they twirled it round. At first, when little
Kagssagssuk tried, he simply fell backwards.

"Now once more. Make haste, make haste, once more. And there again,
there is a bigger one."

And at last little Kagssagssuk ceased to fall over backwards, and was
able instead to m