room no matter how much he tried! He squirmed and wriggled and
twisted, until his face was very red and he looked as if he would
burst, but there he stayed.

Other people had crawled into the tunnel after him. His two wives
were just behind. Everybody got stuck, of course, because no one
could move until the Angakok did. He was just like a cork in the
neck of a bottle.

Kesshoo and Koolee and the twins and Nip and Tup were all in the
igloo. When they saw the Angakok's face come through the hole
they thought, of course, the rest of him would come too. But it
didn't, and the Angakok was mad about it.

"Why don't they build igloos the way they used to?" he growled.
"Every year the tunnels get smaller and smaller! Am I to remain
here forever?" he went on. "Why doesn't somebody help me?"

Kesshoo and Koolee seized him under his arms. They pulled and
pulled. The two wives pushed him from behind.

"I-yi! I-yi!" screamed the Angakok. "You will scrape my skin
off!"

He kicked out behind with his feet. His wives backed hastily, to
get out of the way. That made them bump into Koko's mother who
was just behind them. Her baby was in her hood, and when she
backed, the baby's head was bumped on the roof of the tunnel.

The baby began to roar. In the tunnel it sounded like a clap of