I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place by Howard Norman

Author:Howard Norman
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The Visitor Put in a Snow Globe

A visitor arrived and an angakok arrived at about the same time and things got bad right away. The next day the angakok put the visitor inside a snow globe. He got right to it. He didn’t hesitate. Then the angakok dropped the snow globe through the ice.

The snow globe floated up again and could be seen just under the ice if you rubbed the snow away with the side of your hand. A lot of people did this, mostly children.

Some days passed by. The angakok said, “Have you noticed how much better the weather has been since I dropped that snow globe through the ice? Have you noticed how many fish have been caught? How much better everyone is eating these days?”

When children looked at the snow globe, they saw that the visitor was keeping busy. He had a little house in there. He had a fireplace that never ran out of wood, so he kept warm. It didn’t seem so bad except he was under the ice. That had to be strange for the visitor. Children visited him every day—that must have been good for him.

One day the angakok said, “I’m going a long way to visit some ravens. Then I’m going even farther to visit some other ravens. When I’m gone, don’t take pity on the fellow inside the snow globe. If you let him out, the weather will be terrible and all the fish will swim great distances away.”

But when the angakok left to visit ravens, the people in the village took pity, and they got the snow globe out from under the ice. Then the visitor was his normal size again, and he said, “Thank you. I was only visiting.”

“How was it inside a snow globe?” someone asked.

“Unusual.”

“Well, then—you’d better leave.”

The visitor left on a mail plane. The villagers waited for the weather to turn and for all the fish to leave. But the weather stayed all right, and there were plenty of fish to eat. The villagers hoped the angakok kept visiting ravens for many years to come.

All this happened quite recently.

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