When the rest of the meat was taken care of, Koolee took the
bear's head and carried it into the igloo.

All the people followed her. Then Koolee did a queer thing. She
placed the head on a bench, with the nose pointing toward the Big
Rock, because the bear had come from that direction. Then she
stopped up the nostrils with moss and grease. She greased the
bear's mouth, too.

"Bears like grease," she said. "And if I stop up his nose like
that bears will never be able to smell anything. Then the hunters
can get near and kill them before they know it." You see Koolee
was a great believer in signs and in magic. All the other people
were too.

She called to the twins, "Come here, Menie and Monnie."

The twins had come in with the others, but they were so short
they were out of sight in the crowd. They crawled under the
elbows of the grown people and stood beside Koolee.

"Look, children," she said to them, "your grandfather, who is
dead, sent you this bear. He wants you to send him something. In
five days the bear's spirit will go to the land where your
grandfather's spirit lives. What would you like to have the
bear's spirit take to your grandfather for a gift?"

"I'll send him the little fish that father carved for me out of
bone," said Menie. He squirmed through the crowd and got it from
a corner of his bed and brought it to his mother. She put it on