Kamik’s two factories are in the Littleton Industrial Park, a strip of factories and businesses a few minutes drive from downtown across from the Ammonoosuc River.

The boots, called kamik, are of sealskin, bleached to a spotless cream color.

Perforce, he was compelled to thaw it out in the usual way; that is, taking off his kamik and placing his freezing foot under my bearskin shirt, the heat of my body thawing out the frozen member.

She always carried the case in her kamik, so it would not be lost.