Front matter
Reading edition
Along came a huge brown bear. —Page 32
SITKA THE SNOW BABY
By Allen Chaffee
Author of “Unexplored”, “Lost River” The “Twinkly Eyes Books” “Fuzzy Wuzz” Etc.
Illustrated by PETER DA RU
MILTON BRADLEY COMPANY
Springfield, Massachusetts
Copyright, 1923 By MILTON BRADLEY COMPANY Springfield, Massachusetts ——— All Rights Reserved
Bradley Quality Books
Printed in United States of America
To Peter DaRu who knows and loves the Alaskan wilderness
FOREWORD
Here, in story form, is the natural history of Alaska, our last great American wilderness.
In the adventures of the wee white polar bear, who drifts down the coast on a floating berg, the young reader has a chance to see Southern Alaska, with its two months of lush summer verdure, as well as the long frozen winter under the Northern lights, and the later summers far out in Bering Strait.
With the enterprising bear cub, he can watch Eskimos and reindeer, seals and walruses, migratory sea birds and the salmon who swim the inland waterways to spawn. He will witness the birth of an ice-berg and adventure amid the storms and glaciers of the polar night.
There is also the story of a seal baby, who became the pet of the fisherman’s little boy.
CONTENTS
SITKA, THE SNOW BABY
Chapter Page
I. The Little White Bear 1
II. Unga, the Eskimo Boy 8
III. Adrift on an Ice-Berg 15
IV. The Walrus Herd 22
V. Summer in Alaska 29
VI. Blueberries and Mosquitoes 34
VII. An Adventure 41
VIII. Wolves and Salmon 47
IX. The Birth of an Ice-Berg 56
X. Monsters of the Sea 62
XI. Tooth and Fang 68
XII. “Let There Be Peace” 81
FINNY-FOOT, THE SEAL
I. The Water Puppy 88
II. Pietro’s Pet 95
III. The Trained Seals 101
IV. Flapper the Fur Seal 108
Glossary of Alaskan Words 116