54 STORIES OF EARTH AND SKY 



" I may not tell the secrets of my past. I know, 

 that is enough. You must not hurry me. 1 was 

 a very small planet, so I cooled quickly, and all the 

 changes that the Earth went through until it be- 

 came the garden for Heart of Man, I, too, experi- 

 enced. Mountains rose on my sides, rivers ran 

 and oceans ebbed and flowed, and people of a sort 

 lived on me. But I went on quickly cooling until 

 my very heart was chilled. Then I gave off no 

 moist breath to make air and water, for I was an 

 experiment made to test the workings of the 

 Plan. 



" Listen, House Child. As Heart of God saw 

 that the earth garden was complete and ready to 

 receive the new animal who was worthy to wear 

 his image and be called Heart of Man, the last 

 life left my cold body. As a garden the Plan 

 needed me no longer, and I then became merely 

 Dibik Gheezis, the Night Sun, who was there- 

 after to help and be a servant of the chosen Earth 

 of all." 



"Poor Mooney, I never thought that you had 

 ever had such an interesting life, and died of such 

 an awful chill ! I don't quite see how you are 

 very much help to the Earth, though of course it 

 isn't your fault. And what became of the last 

 animals that lived 011 you? " 



