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reason the Eagle looks that way. "Very well," said the Eagle, "sit 

 on my back. Hold on tight, I am about to fly. As soon as I fly, 

 close your eyes. You must not look until I tell you." "Very well," 

 said the little boys. 



They sat on the Eagle's back and the Eagle flew. He ascended 

 higher and higher and kept circling. Then he lighted. "Now you 

 can open your eyes," he said to the little boys. 



When they opened their eyes they were in a strange-looking land. 

 "Now, httle boys, I have brought you to the Sun's land. Over there 

 where that white house is your mother is staying. She is now the 

 Sun's wife, and your father's head is at the Morning Star's house. 

 Every morning the Morning Star plays sliinny with your father's 

 head. So you must go early to-morrow morning to the place where 

 he is playing shinny. He makes a fierce noise, but you must not 

 fear him. Should he ask you any questions, you must not fear to 

 answer him. If he should ask you to play shinny, you must be 

 willing to play shinny with him. But you must not liit your father's 

 head. You must only try to hit his shinny sticks. He has only 

 about ten shinny sticks. \Mien you break his last shinny stick the 

 Morning Star will drop dead. When he drops dead you must take 

 your father's head and come here again. I will be waiting here." 



The little children went as the Eagle had told them. Early in the 

 morning they heard a fierce noise. " There is the Morning Star playing 

 shinny with our father's head," said the Httle children; "indeed, let 

 us go and meet him. We wiH do as the Eagle told us, and wUl win.'' 

 They went where the Morning Star was making the noise. When 

 they came to where the Morning Star was the Morning Star said to 

 them: "Little boys, why do you come here? There is no creature 

 that comes around where I am; not even a little bird comes around 

 here. Now I shall eat you both up." "We are around here, any- 

 how," the httle boys said. "Very well," said the Morning Star, 

 "this is your father's head, and I play shinny with it every morning. 

 If you are around here looking for your parents, let us play shinny 

 with your father's head. Wlioever wins shall have the head." 



Then they began to play sliinny. The little children, instead of 

 hitting the shinny ball, were hitting the Morning Star's shinny 

 sticks. \Mien his last shinny stick was broken, the Morning Star 

 dropped dead. "We win," said the httle boys. "Our father's head 

 we shall take over to where the Eagle is waiting for us." So they 

 took the head and came to where the Eagle was waiting. 



"How did you make out, little boys?" said the Eagle to them. 

 "Wefl," said the little boys, "we have won our father's head." 

 "Very well," said the Eagle, "now you may go and get your mother. 

 When you bring her back here I will take you down again to the 

 earth. You must go to where your mother is staying after it gets 



