When the twins awoke, the sun was shining as brightly as ever,
and Nip and Tup were barking at them through the hole in the
roof.

Kesshoo and Koolee were gone!

Menie and Monnie were frightened. They were afraid they were left
behind. They sat up in bed and howled!

In a moment Koolee's face looked down at them through the roof.

"What's the matter?" she said.

"We thought we were left," wailed Monnie!

"As if I could leave you behind!" cried Koolee.

She laughed at them. "Hand up the skins to me," she said. She
reached her arm down the hole and pulled out all the skins from
the bed as fast as the twins gave them to her.

Then she put her head down into the opening and looked all
around. "We haven't left a thing," she said; "come along."

The twins couldn't climb out through the roof, though they wanted
to, so they went out by the tunnel, and helped their mother carry
the skins to the beach.

All the people in the village and all the dogs were there before