The farmer told Tom to put

a hoop around the hogshead,
that big wooden barrel

at the back of the house."

"Huh, huh!" laughed Hoggy-woggy, "huh, huh."

And all the animals went up

back of the house to look

at the new iron hoop which Tom had put around the hogshead

to keep it from falling to pieces.

of us.

This land, so far away to the north of us, is called the Northland.

In this far-away land

called the Northland,

the winter days are very short. But the winter nights in that

far-away land are not short.

The winter nights in the Northland

are very, very long.

They are so long that no one

can sleep all night.

We do not have such long nights.

And we do not have so much snow as in the Northland.

When it snows in our country,

the horses pull the sleighs

over the snow.

There are not many horses

in the Northland.

But there are a great many reindeer. There are no sleighs in the Northland. But there are many sledges.

These sledges look like our sleighs.

Now when it snows in our country,

the horses pull the sleighs

over the snow.

But when it snows in the Northland,

the reindeer pull the sledges

over the snow.

The reindeer run very fast.

The reindeer pull the sledges

over the snow very quickly.

There are also many little children

in the Northland.

But in the Northland, little children

do not look like the children

in our country.

In the Northland, the boys and girls.

wear funny, furry clothes.

So the boys and girls

there in the Northland