When he came out of the tunnel, Kesshoo found the twins trying to make
a snow house for the dogs. They weren't getting on very well.
Kesshoo could make wonderful snow houses. He had made a beautiful one
when the first heavy snows of winter had come, and the family had lived
in it while Koolee finished building the stone igloo. The twins had
watched him make it. It seemed so easy they were sure they could do it
too. Kesshoo said, "If you will run to all the igloos and tell the
people to come at sunset to eat the bear's head, I will help you build
the snow house for the dogs."
Menie and Monnie couldn't run. Nobody could. The snow was too deep.
They went in every step above their knees. But they ploughed along and
gave their message at each igloo.
Everybody was very glad to come, and Koko said, "I'll come right now
and stay if you want me to."
"Come along," said the twins.
They went back to their own house, kicking the snow to make a path.
Koko went with them. The snow was just the right kind for a snow house.
It packed well and made good blocks.
While the twins were away giving the invitations, Kesshoo carried great
pieces of bear's meat into the house.
Koolee put in the cooking pan all the meat it would hold, and kept the
blaze bright in the lamp underneath to cook it.
Then Kesshoo took his long ivory knife and went out to help the twins
with the snow house, as he had promised.
"See, this is the way," he said to them.
He took an unbroken patch of snow where no one had stepped. He made a
wide sweep of his arm and marked a circle in the snow with his knife.
The circle was just as big as he meant the house to be. Then he cut out
blocks of snow from the space inside the circle. He placed these big
blocks of snow around the circle on the line he had marked with his
knife.