TAKING AWAY THE SUN 



"Why, what are you doing down here?" he 

 asked. 



" I and some of my people thought we would 

 like a change, and so we came down to live on 

 earth for a while," replied the dwarf. 



" What has become of Man? " 



" Who is Man? I never heard of him," said 

 Raven boy. 



" He was the first person ever seen on earth. 

 He was our Headman until he went away with 

 Raven," said the people. 



" I will go into the skyland and find him," said 

 Raven boy. He tried to fly, but could get up 

 only a little way. He tried several times, getting 

 only a short distance above the ground. When 

 he found that he could not get back to the sky, he 

 wandered off and finally came to where there 

 were living the children of the three men who last 

 dropped from the pea-vine. There he took a 

 wife and lived for a long time having many chil- 

 dren, all of whom were Raven people like him- 

 self and could fly over the earth. But they grad- 

 ually lost their magical powers, and were no 

 longer able to turn themselves into men by push- 

 ing up their beaks. They became just ordinary 

 ravens like those we see now on the tundras or 

 marshy plains. 



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