stove shaped like a large box. In the lower half of this stove is the
fire space, adapted to receive huge blocks of wood. The upper half is an
oven.

Against the wall, and not far from the stove, the table stands, and
built against the wall at one side of the door, the kitchen closet. In
the farther end of the room are the family beds, usually built into the
cabin after the fashion of ships' bunks. In Abel's cabin there was but
one bed, and this of ample breadth to accommodate two. Now there was to
be another for Bobby.

Home-made chests, which answer the double purpose of storage places for
clothing and whatnot and seats, take the place of chairs, though
sometimes there are rude home-made chairs and Abel's cabin contained
two. Guns always loaded and within reach for instant use, rest upon low
overhead beams, or upon pegs against the wall. On a shelf, at some
convenient place, and specially built for their accommodation, the Bible
and hymnal are kept. Abel's Bible and hymnal, as in all Christianized
Eskimo houses, were printed in the Eskimo language.

This, then, was the kind of home that Bobby entered, and which, as the
years passed, he was to love, for it was a haven of affection.

The cabin was cold and damp and stuffy now, and filled with unpleasant
odors, for it had been unoccupied since early in July. But soon Abel had
a roaring fire in the stove, and the things in from the boat, and Mrs.
Abel had the room aired, and before the candle was lighted the room had
taken on the cozy comfort of occupancy.

Then there was supper of stewed duck and hot dough-bread and tea. When