There, barred by a heavy wooden grill from the airy loft filled with bright calicoes, sashes, pails, guns, blankets, clothes, and other ornamental and useful things, Sak-we-su and Mu-hi-kun made their choice, trading in the worn wooden "castors" on the string.

25 Like hunted castors, conscious of their store, Their waylaid wealth to Norway's coasts they bring: There first the north's cold bosom spices bore, And winter brooded on the eastern spring.

It was the dining-room, and, although in the main the table had been cleared, at one end a clean plate, flanked by a bone-handled knife and fork and an old-fashioned castor, still remained.

25 Like hunted castors, conscious of their store, Their waylaid wealth to Norway's coasts they bring: There first the north's cold bosom spices bore, And winter brooded on the eastern spring.

There, barred by a heavy wooden grill from the airy loft filled with bright calicoes, sashes, pails, guns, blankets, clothes, and other ornamental and useful things, Sak-we-su and Mu-hi-kun made their choice, trading in the worn wooden "castors" on the string.