Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1903 — A Daring Eskimo Lover. [ARTICLE]

A Daring Eskimo Lover.

A young Eskimo had secretly courted the daughter of an enemy. The huts of the lovers were not far removed, but one night the terrific cold ripped a great crevasse In the ice, and the young man’s house was left isolated. A gorge 100 feet deep and twenty feet wide separated it from the igloo, or hut, containing his sweetheart, but there was a narrow bridge of ice left across the crevasse, and this, the young man found, would bear his weight. Eskimos sleep in bags. The lover decided that he would that night cross the ice bridge, steal the maiden he loved, bear her to his hut and then break down the bridge so that he and she together might enjoy their honeymoon unmolested. He planned very successfully. He crept in the dead of night into his enemy’s hut, he snatched up the maiden in her sack without awaking any one, he bore her over the ice bridge safely, and then he opened the sack to embrace his bride; but, beholding its contents, he gave a loud cry. It was not the maiden, but her father, that he had stolen.