into their mother's arms.

"Oh, Mother, what is the matter with the sky?" they gasped.

Then Koolee looked up too. The long streamers were still flinging
themselves up toward the red dome overhead.

We call this the "aurora," or "northern lights," and know that
electricity causes it, but the twins' mother couldn't know that.
She told them just what had been told her when she was a little
girl.

She said, "That is the dance of the Spirits of the Dead! Haven't
you ever seen it before?"

"Not like this," said the twins. "This is so big, and so red!"

"The sky is not often so bright," said Koolee. "Some say it is
the spirits of little children dancing and playing together in
the sky! They will not hurt you. You need not be afraid. See how
they dance in a ring all around the Edge of the World! They look
as if they were having fun."

"It goes around the Edge of the World just like the flames around
our lamp," said Menie. "Maybe it's the Giants' lamp!"

Menie and Monnie believed in Giants. So did their mother. They
thought the Giants lived in the middle of the Great White World,
where the snow never melts.