Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 236
nderneaththe skin, and the hunter draws her to the top ofthe ice, crushes in the snow with his heavy heel,and then kills the captured seal. Sometimes the mother seal seeks a breathing-hole under the deepest snow and makes a muchlarger dome, so that the ice will form a shelf twoor three feet in… … ESKIMO BOYS SPEARING FISH IN THE RIVER-RAPIDS. (SEE NEXT PAGE. them food, and when disturbed, hurries away,leaving her kittens on their ice shelf, where theyare safe from harm, because they are of the samecolor as the snow and, therefore, can not be seenby the wolf or bear who is out seal-hunting.…
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