Arrluk the Eskimo

Arrluk the Eskimo

In Their Time: The Eskimos live in the wintery far Northern reaches of North America. They are a hearty people that enjoy living in cold temperatures where they can get more than their fair share of whale blubber and perpetual frozen noses.

The Eskimos don’t like older people, so they put the older members of their tribe on an ice flow that is going out to sea. The old person takes a ride out to sea from which they will never return.

Our Weirdo: Arrluk the Eskimo at an early age realized that he could talk to animals. It was a good thing too, because he had a hard time talking with people. They thought he was odd and the more Arrluk hung out with animals the more odd they thought he was. This went on for years until the old Arrluk was put out to sea.

Little did the village realize that Arrluk was not destined to die on his ice flow. Arrluk hitched a ride with a killer whale that took Arrluk to sunny Florida where he found that he was not the only old person that had been cast off from their tribe. But the older Floridians found Arrluk to be odd as well since the Eskimo kept wearing his winter fur coat in 90 degree weather.

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