picture. When the Lapps go on skees,
they do not raise their feet from the ground. They slide along, one
foot after the other. They have a long pole, or staff, in their hands
to beep themselves from falling. They can go very fast in this way.
Sometimes they go ten or fifteen miles an hour.

[Illustration: Skees.]

In some parts of Lapland the people live in houses made of earth and
stone. Each house has only one room. The Lapps have no carpets. They
have no tables or chairs. They cover their floor with twigs of trees.
They eat and sleep on skins spread on the twigs. They burn wood for
fires. The fire is made on the ground in the middle of the floor. The
smoke goes out through a hole in the roof.

[Illustration: A Lapp Family at Home.]

The Lapps do not all live in the same way. Some of them are called
mountain Lapps. In summer the mountain Lapps live in tents among the
hills. Their tents are made of reindeer skin. They have a great many
reindeer.

The reindeer is very useful to the Lapps. It gives them milk. It
draws their sleighs. Its flesh is good to eat. They make clothes of
its skin. They make knives and spoons of its horns.

In summer the reindeer eat the soft shoots of shrubs and trees. In
winter they feed on moss called lichen. They get the lichen
themselves. They would not eat it if it were gathered for them. In
winter they dig down through the snow with their feet to get at the
lichen. They dig first with one fore foot and then with the other.
The snow is often so deep that the reindeer has to dig a hole so large
that its body is almost hidden.

The reindeer are not put in stables. They like to be out in the cold
and snow. They are able to take care of themselves.

The Lapps eat a good deal of meat. Their meat is the flesh of the
reindeer. They are very fond of fat. All people who live in very cold
countries eat a great deal of fat. It helps to keep them warm. The
Lapps also have milk and cheese. They eat rye bread and fish and
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John Holland Rose (1855-1942) was an influential English historian who wrote a famous biography of French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and also wrote a history of Europe, entitled The Development of the European Nations. Rose was the basis for C. P. Snows fictional character M. H. L. Gay (see Years of Hope: Cambridge, Colonial Administrator in the South Seas, and Cricket by Philip Snow.)

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