When Kesshoo and Koko's father came up with the big seal, Koolee
and the other women dragged it to the village, where it was
skinned and cut up. Every one had a piece of raw blubber to eat
at once, and the very first piece went to Menie.

While they were eating it, Koko came back. He had gone so far up
the shore hunting little auks that he hadn't seen a thing that
had happened. And he hadn't killed any little auks either.

Koko felt that things were very unequally divided in this world.
He wanted to kill a seal and get lost on a raft and be a hero
too.

But Koolee gave him a large piece of blubber, and that made him
feel much more cheerful again. He just said to Monnie, "If I had
been with Menie, this never would have happened! I should not
have let him get so near the edge of the ice! But then, you know,
I am six, and he is only five, so, of course, he didn't know any
better."

Everybody in the village had seal meat that night, and the
Angakok had the head, which they all thought was the best part.
He said he didn't feel very well, and his Tornak had told him
nothing would cure him so quickly as a seal's head. So Koolee
gave it to him.

The skin of the little white seal Koolee saved and dressed very
carefully. She chewed it, all over, on the wrong side, and sucked
out all the blubber, and made it soft and fine as velvet; and