ESKIMO FOLK-TALES
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"How did you get across?" cried the woman.
"I drank up the water. Do you likewise."
And the woman began gulping it down.
Then the man turned round towards her, and said:
"Look at the tail of your tunic; it is hanging down between your legs."
And when she bent down to look, her belly burst.
And as she burst, a steam rose up out of her, and turned to fog, which still floats about to this day among the hills.
