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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2586, 21 August 1909, Page 4 (Supplement)

paws, and fell asleep. Since that day i all the bears sleep through winter; for | Grymta laid a sjiell on them and their ! descendants for ever.” j “And did Grymta and her grandchild rejoin their kinsfolk?” j “We know no more,” Klemti answered, “the story ends there. But if she had not lived to tell her tale to others how should we have heard it?” j And with a shake of the head over the , | denseness of the stranger lie ran to free | the herd from the annoyance of a mis- | chievous puppy. i The short, shadowless twilight of the - summer night had scarcely melted into day before the Lapps were astir, preparing for my departure. The dogs barked and the little dark-haired pee-., pie chattered round me as I took leave of them all. Klemti gave sonwft pompous admonishment to my guideand grasped my hand in farewell; I wished him all prosperity—“and may it he long,” I cried, “before the White Reindeer approaches your camp!”