A TEEASUEY OF ESKIMO TALES 



The father went into the house, and the Raven 

 boy flew on to the place where the sun belonged, 

 and put the bag down. It was early dawn and 

 he saw the Milky Way leading far onward, and 

 followed it to a hole surrounded by short grass 

 which glowed with light. He plucked some of 

 the grass and, standing close beside the edge of 

 the earth just before sunrise time, he stuck it into 

 the sky. It has stayed there ever since as the 

 beautiful Morning Star. 



Then he went back and tore off the skin cover- 

 ing and put the sun in its place. Remembering 

 that his father had called to him not to keep it 

 always dark, but to make it partly dark and 

 partly light, he caused the sky to revolve so that 

 it moved around the earth carrying the sun and 

 stars with it, and making day and night. 



Going down to earth he came to where the first 

 people lived, and said to them, " Raven, my 

 uncle, was angry because you killed more animals 

 than you needed, and he took away the sun; but 

 I have put it back and it will never be changed 

 again." 



The people welcomed him warmly when they 

 knew what he had done for them. As he looked 

 around upon them he recognized the Headman of 



the sky-dwarfs. 



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