XIX 



TAKING AWAY THE SUN 



PEOPLE were becoming such good hunters that 

 they killed a great many animals, more than 

 Raven was willing to have killed, lest the animals 

 become too few for the large number of people 

 now on earth. For this reason, Raven took a 

 grass basket and tied a long line to it and, going 

 down to earth, caught ten reindeer which he took 

 up to the skyland. The next night he let the 

 reindeer down near one of the villages and told 

 them to run fast and break down the first house 

 they came to, and destroy the people in it. 



The reindeer did so and ate up the people with 

 their sharp, wolf-like teeth ; then they returned to 

 the sky. The next night they came down again 

 and destroyed another house and ate up the peo- 

 pie. 



'* What shall we do? " cried the people to one 

 another. " They will destroy all of us if they 

 keep on coming." 



" I know what I am going to do," said the man 

 who lived in the third house. " They will come 



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