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ESKIMO FOLK-TALES
He ate and ate, and at last he had eaten it all up. And again he emptied the water bucket.
After all that he felt very well indeed, and seemed hardly to have eaten until now. But that was because he had swallowed a little stalk of grass before he began.
So Atdlarneq slept, and next morning he went back home again. But after having thus nearly gorged himself to death, he never went southward again.
