“It is because we now expect our dear master home.”
When he heard this, he was afraid, and hid himself behind the skin hangings. And he had hardly crawled in there when that master came home; Atdlarneq looked through a little hole, and saw him.
And his cheeks were made of copper.[1]
He had but just sat down, when he began to sniff, and said:
“Hum! There is a smell of people here.”
And now Atdlarneq crawled out, seeing that the other had already smelt him. He had hardly shown himself, when the other asked very eagerly:
“Has he had nothing to eat yet?”
“No, he has not yet eaten.”
“Then bring food at once.”
And then they brought in a sack full of fish, and a big piece of blubber from the half of a black seal. And then the man said violently: