everybody be surprised to see us bring home a great load of game?
I shall give everything I get to my mother."

"I'm going to hunt birds and seal holes too," Koko answered.

Kesshoo was very busy fixing the fastening of his harpoon, and he
did not hear what they said.

The two boys went to their homes for their weapons, and then ran
out on the ice. Nobody knew where they were. Of course, Nip and
Tup went along.


II.

All the way over the ice they looked for seal holes. It takes
sharp eyes to find them, for seal holes are very small.

You see, the mother seals try to find the safest place they can
to hide their babies, and this is the way they do it:

As soon as the ice begins to freeze in the autumn, the seals gnaw
holes in it to reach the air, and they keep these holes open all
winter. It freezes so fast in that cold country that they have to
be busy almost every minute all through the winter breaking away
the ice there. They get their sleep in snatches of a minute or so
at a time, and between their naps they clear the ice from their
breathing holes.

There is usually a deep layer of snow over the ice. Each mother