Possibly Santa Claus will drive only two reindeerin his sleigh this year.
Santa Claus takes great delight in driving his tiny reindeer and sleigh full of toys over roofs of houses for the special benefit of the girls and boys he knows, and that includes all of them.
Tie a long, narrow red ribbon around the neck of eachreindeer and pin or tie the ends of these ribbon reins on to the mitten-covered ends of the arms which form his hands.
Stand the reindeer in front of Santa Claus’ sleigh and see how fine they look.
Santa Claus with sleigh and reindeer will be ready to surprise the family early Christmas morning.
The rearing of reindeermight easily be made such a profitable business as to be sufficient in itself to insure a comfortable livelihood to the Lapps.
Still the reindeer frequents it for its lichens, and on the drier slopes of the moraine deposits four species of lemming, hunted by the Canis lagopus, find quarters.
In the north, the Samoyeds, Chukchis, and Kamchadales have the reindeer and dog, while the horse and ox are everywhere the companions of man in the peopled regions of Siberia.
Hair seal and bear steaks were on different occasions tried at the mess on board the Corwin, but everybody voted eider duck and reindeer the preference.
I made my journey in this season, however, because I was on my way to Lapland, where it is easier to travel when the swamps and rivers are frozen, and the reindeer sleds can fly along over the smooth snow.
Lars then led him under the drooping branches of a fir-tree, tied him to one of them, gave him an armful of hay, and fastened the reindeerskin upon his back.
I held up the ends of the reindeer skins while Lars took off his coat and crept in beside me.
He jumped into the sled, which he had filled with fresh, soft hay, tucked in the reindeer skins at the sides, and we cuddled together on the narrow seat.
I had my own little sled, filled with hay and covered with reindeer skins to keep me warm.
To the Samoyed, for instance, the reindeer which serves him as unit of value is wealth in the most concrete and tangible form.
The reindeer nomads of the arctic seaboard may appear to be an exception, at least in a degree, but they are a special case, admitting a particular explanation, and their case does not affect the argument for the Aryan civilisation.
Two reindeer were observed by the gentlemen who extended their walks inland; but this was the only summer in which we did not procure a single pound of venison.
If we should imagine that the Lappish language came in at a comparatively late period with the Reindeer Lapps, as Dr.
But on the other hand they also kept reindeer, resembling in this the easternreindeer nomads.
This contact cannot have lasted very long, as the country on the south side of the White Sea is not particularly favourable to reindeer nomads.
The Skolte-Lapp skulls examined were of more mixed race, and were more mesocephalic; but they bore most resemblance to the Reindeer Lapp skulls, although some of them also showed a transition to the heathen skulls.
Among themselves and with the Mountain Finns (Reindeer Lapps) they do not use this, but their own language.
They like seal and reindeer meat, but there are times when they can get neither flesh nor fish.
Soup was followed by a joint of reindeer venison, which was a treat to me, as beef or mutton would be to my hosts.
To these belong the peaty clay from which several mammoths' tusks and horns of reindeer were obtained at Kilmaurs, in Ayrshire as long ago as 1816.
The presence of the marmot, as well as the reindeer and some other northern animals, in these caverns seems to imply a colder climate than that of the Swiss lake-dwellings, in which no remains of reindeer have as yet been discovered.
Lartet gave, in 1863, the name of the "reindeer period," because vast quantities of the bones and horns of that deer have been met with in the French caverns.
From the courtyard came a clashing and jingling of bells, as servants brought the reindeer from the feeding-ground to harness them to the boat-like sledges that stood waiting.
Into their skees, and over the crusted plains they went,--reindeer could not have caught them.
Of special interest among these relics are fishhooks made of bone, and crude sketches of animals such as the mammoth and reindeer now extinct in that region.
Last of all was the latest Paleolithic stage corresponding to the close of the Ice Age, the human remains of which are found associated with reindeer and the latest mammoths which roamed in great numbers across Europe.
A dozen reindeer were suspended from the shrouds, and clusters of rabbits and foxes were hung in the rigging; besides these, deposits of reindeer were made in various directions.
Her locks were filled with moss, greasy bits of seal, and disgusting reindeer hairs, besides other things both active and numerous.
Then, all at once, throwing his hand into the soft reindeer skin, he became silent, but continued to tremble.
At some distance from the fire, and leaning against the back of a reindeer as white as milk, stood a grey-headed Tungus in the old-time national costume.
The young men began to kill reindeer for the others, and to put the cauldron on the fire without delay.
He ate heartily and with relish, for, according to Tungus ideas, no event in life is great enough to deprive a fat reindeer of its savouriness.
Behind him, holding a riding-reindeer by the bridle, was a young boy resembling him in face and dress.
The youths did not dance at the meeting place, no reindeer were to be seen racing.
At the very end of the caravan two armed huntsmen, aided by dogs, drove a herd of unladen reindeer with their calves.
I was talking to the young men yesterday, and they said: "Rather than that, let all our reindeer die, and we will live by industry.
And when the last reindeer of the caravan had disappeared into the bushes, and the branches closed swinging behind it, Seltichan rose from his seat and went away, taking leave of the company with a slight nod.
The tired reindeerwere sleeping in a heap in the snow.
We did not allow the reindeer out of our sight, and we went where they led us, spending the night among the herd, like the Chukchee.
Our tents are struck, the young men are ready, the reindeer saddled; we shall be on the mountains before they have noticed anything.
Something like a storm passed over me; but when I regained consciousness I had not a single reindeer left;--Tumara was a poor man.
A white reindeer skin, with the head turned towards the south, was then spread in the middle of the circle.
And as fast as he had several boxes of toys ready, Santa Claus would hitch his eight reindeer to his sleigh, and down to Earth he would go.
The reindeershook their heads, making the bells jingle more merrily than ever.
It is mentioned that the reindeerof those mountains are innumerable.
As the reindeer walks, a crackling noise proceeds from its feet, which is produced by the hooflets striking against each other.
Days added themselves into weeks, until at last they were in the country of the Reindeer waterways.
South of theReindeer waterway country the snows were disappearing late in March and ice was rotting the first week in April.
Ivan, my driver, requested me to hold tight; he held the reins of all four reindeer in one hand, and away we went over the plain!
The "village" consisted of a few huts and tents of Russian and Samoyedes pasturing their reindeer on the Vaygets Island.
Nordenskiold's account of a short drive in a reindeer sledge is amusing.
Instead of finding a smooth, level plain over which the reindeer could draw their sledges with ease, they found broken, rugged, uneven ice, which nothing but the keen enthusiasm of the explorer could have faced.
The people were dressed entirely in reindeer skin from head to foot, and they had a great collection of walrus tusks and skins such as Othere had brought centuries before to King Alfred.
Here in this "best-known haven on the whole north coast of Asia they anchored and spent time in bear and reindeer hunting.
The reindeer were useless, and they had to be relinquished; it is always supposed that they were eaten, but history is silent on this point.
Four reindeer were put side by side to each sledge," he says.
A few old bones and skins of reindeer were collected for supper and the worn-out explorers sat round a fire made by pulling up the flooring of the rooms.
Footnote 21: From this line it appears that the poem is of Norwegian or Swedish origin, as the reindeer was unknown in Iceland before the middle of the 18th century, when it was Introduced by royal command.
I can imagine Father Christmas making his annual pun on the word "reindeer," and the eldestreindeer making a feeble attempt to smile.
While young reindeerare being trained in the way they should go, a big buck animal is fastened to the back, to do nothing but pull against the other continually.
On the payment of a sum between ten and twelve pounds he is allowed to kill three reindeer and one elk.
Occasionally the reindeer is vexed and turns on his master, who saves himself by rolling out of the sledge and covering himself with it.
They conducted us to their huts, and gave us driedreindeer flesh and milk.
All their garments are made of reindeer skin, and the women add to these various silk shawls and handkerchiefs brightly coloured; by the quantity and the quality of these one may judge of their rank and richness.
Illustration: MOLDOeEN] While we were on the island I saw several reindeer on the mountains opposite.
Sometimes during the winter a family of these tent-dwellers descend upon districts more favoured than their own, and I believe the immense flocks of reindeer do untold damage in the forests.
The small sledges which the reindeer draw are usually for one person.
When after some weeks I persuaded him that the reindeer would be much more sad if the coat was not worn, he consented to have it on, but only on condition that it should be slipped on over his feet.
The reindeer was also hunted, and the cumbersome mammoth enabled a whole tribe to gorge itself.
The First Journey with the Reindeer Those were happy days for Claus when he carried his accumulation of toys to the children who had awaited them so long.
One Christmas Eve, when his reindeer had leaped to the top of a new building, Santa Claus was surprised to find that the chimney had been built much smaller than usual.
If they obey, and harken unto my words, Claus will drive his reindeer for countless ages yet to come.
In all the years I have traveled with my reindeer I have never seen the like before.
So that as the earth rolled slowly over Santa Claus had all of twenty-four hours to encircle it each Christmas Eve, and the speedy reindeer enjoyed these wonderful journeys more and more.
His reindeer sped over the waters as swiftly as over land, and his sledge headed from east to west and followed in the wake of the sun.
Once, just as the reindeer were ready to start on their yearly trip, a Fairy came to Claus and told him of three little children who lived beneath a rude tent of skins on a broad plain where there were no trees whatever.
The First Christmas Tree Claus had always kept his promise to the Knooks by returning to the Laughing Valley by daybreak, but only the swiftness of his reindeer has enabled him to do this, for he travels over all the world.
Then, at twilight, the ten reindeer appeared and Flossie introduced them all to Claus.
He was in a tremendous hurry and seeing the stockings all belonged to children he quickly stuffed his toys into them and dashed up the chimney again, appearing on the roof so suddenly that the reindeer were astonished at his agility.
From there the hunt started, and the King rode afterreindeer which had been brought to the spot for the purpose.
The following day he hunted reindeer in Grossenhayn, then in Stanchitz, and passed the night in Moritzburg.
The last reindeer tired us,' added the King, 'but it was worthy of our efforts.
