A TEEASUEY OF ESKIMO TALES 



were alive, and they threatened to tear the visitor 

 in pieces. It was very dangerous to try to pass 

 the fierce animals, but the conjurer told his mas- 

 cot to growl as loud as it could, and that startled 

 the walruses for an instant, and in that instant the 

 man slipped in. 



It must be chilly in the Moon, for the house had 

 a passageway to keep out the cold, just as the 

 Eskimo houses have. In this passageway was a 

 red-and-white spotted dog, the only dog which 

 the Man in the Moon keeps. The man went on 

 past this dog and into the inner room. There at 

 the left he saw a door into another building in 

 which sat a beautiful woman with a lamp before 

 her. As soon as she saw the stranger she blew on 

 her fire and made it flash up, and she hid behind 

 the blaze; but he had seen enough so that he knew 

 she was the Sun. 



The Man in the Moon rose from his seat on the 

 ledge and came over to shake hands with the vis- 

 itor and welcome him. Behind the lamps there 

 was a great heap of venison and seal meat, but the 

 Man in the Moon did not offer his guest any of it, 

 which is not the way the Eskimo and Indians 

 treat their guests. The Man in the Moon seemed 

 to have a different idea of hospitality, for he im- 

 mediately said: 



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