as much more sober. Him they finally
called _Aupadleit_, which means 'Little Red-head,' though the Dean's
hair was not exactly red, but very bright, and the savages admired it
very much; so the Dean, to humor them, cut off great locks of it, and
gave it to them all round.

"I took a great interest in Eatum's children, and this further inclined
Mr. and Mrs. Eatum to have a good opinion of me. As they were people of
much consequence in their tribe, this was a matter of great importance;
and, in truth, the juvenile Eatums were quite an interesting pair of
savages, and were fond of play like any other children. One was a boy
and the other a girl. I cannot remember their right names, but the Dean
and I christened the boy _Mop-head_, because of the great quantity of
dirty black hair he had, and the girl we called _Gimlet-eyes_. Mop-head
had a little sledge made of bones, just like his father's; and with this
the two children used to play at travelling and other games. Gimlet-eyes
had little dolls carved out of bones, which she used to dress up in furs
and put on the sledge for Mop-head to drag when they went on their
journeys; and he had little spears, and she had little pots and lamps,
and they used to make excursions over the snow that you could hardly
throw a stone to the end of; and then they would build little snow
houses and put the dolls in them, and, while Mop-head went off to hunt,
Gimlet-eyes would _amna-aya_ them to sleep. Thus you see little children
are much alike all the world over.

"In these playful exercises we used to amuse ourselves with the
children; and when we were travelling about in earnest, the Dean and I
sometimes pulled Mop-head's little sledge for him, when we were going
slow: and he thought it great fun to have the white-faced strangers
drag his sister's lamps and pots and dolls along.

"And now the summer was fairly come. The snow was melting very rapidly,
and first in small and then in large streams the water came rushing and
roaring down into the sea. The birds soon afterward came back from the
south,--the eider-ducks and the little auks, which we had caught in the
summer time when upon the island; and then, as soon as the snow was all
gone, the moss and stunted grass grew green, and plants sprouted up here
and there, and the butterflies with bright yellow wings went gathering
the honey from flower to flower, and you cannot imagine how glad we were
once more to come out of the dreary winter i