THE OILY ESQUIMAU.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20384, 12 October 1929, Page 4 (Supplement)

THE OILY ESQUIMAU.

There lived a long time ago, Away up north an Esquimau, "Who"—'" What's an Esquimau?" asked Ted. In stately tones I gravely said, " The mail who lives mid_ ico and snow, Is sometimes called an Esquimau. Ho has a largo and oily face, A feature common to Ins race, Which ironies about, so I am told From always feeling very cold, And eating fish arid blubber, too —" " What's blubber, dad; a kind of stew?" Impressively, I slow replied: " It may bo eaten baked or fried, It soothps the Esquimau's inside, And helps 10 warm his frozen hide, An easily digested mess, It's blubber, nothing more or Jess. Obtained from seals and—" " What's a seal?" '' A seal, my boy, is—well, a seal, riio seal-skin coats of ladies fair Aro made from the skins that most seals wear. 1 hey sport and frisk upon the snows V\ hich stretch in vast expansive floes—" What's floes.''—''My boy," I grimly said, " It's time that you were off to be<i-"