The thought of the Giants scared them all. The twins gave the
fish to their mother, and then they all three scuttled up the
snowy slope toward the bright window of their igloo just as fast
as they could go. When they got inside they found some hot bear's
meat waiting for them, and Monnie had both the eyes from her fish
to eat. But she gave one to Menie.

When they were warmed and fed, they pulled off their little fur
suits, crawled into the piles of warm skins on the sleeping
bench, and in two minutes were sound asleep.


IV.

THE SNOW HOUSE

THE SNOW HOUSE

I.

It is very hard to tell what day it is, or what hour in the day,
in a place where the days and nights are all mixed up, and where
there are no clocks.

Menie and Monnie had never seen a clock in their whole lives. If
they had they would have thought it was alive, and perhaps would
have been afraid of it.

But people everywhere in the world get sleepy, so the Eskimos
sometimes count their time by "sleeps." Instead of saying five