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top his tongue went out and licked the tallow from the walls. He licked 
all the tallow off of the walls and off of the ground and off of the stem 
grass. 
After he had licked all the tallow off of everything he thought of the 
girl whom he wastorunfor. Hestarted. He went out of the lodge and 
soon he found her tracks. He followed her and after a while he came in 
sight of her. Then he began tocall her and said: ‘‘Woman, stop, return 
to the lodge with me, for there is no use for youtorun. Iam to kill you. 
I do not care if you run over this wide earth, I shall follow you until I 
kill you and then you will be no more. If you try to fly up into the air 
I shall follow you and kill you.”’ The girl kept on and when Long-Tongue 
was close to her the girl remembered what the Raven had told her. She 
took the smooth stones from the bundle and dropped them upon the 
ground. As soon as she dropped the stones upon the ground the ground 
- was covered with smooth stones. Long-Tongue said: ‘‘What a fine 
lot of stones there are here. I will gather them together. Then when 
I have caught the girl we shall come by here and I will make that girl 
carry these stones upon her back. I have no stones and so, while I have 
a chance, I will gather these together.’’ Long-Tongue placed the stones 
in piles. 
After he had gathered all the stones, he thought of the girl whom he 
was running after. He started to run again. The girl had gained on 
Long-Tongue, but again he was about to catch her. She turned around 
as Long-Tongue was about to put his hands upon her and took one of 
the balls of tallow and hit Long-Tongue upon the top of the head, so that 
the tallow spattered all over the ground. Some of the tallow got on the 
grass and weeds and when Long-Tongue smelled the tallow he said: “I 
amhungry. I will stop and eat of this tallow. I will kill the girl later.” 
Long-Tongue stopped and began to lick the weeds and grass and when 
he had cleaned it all up he thought of the girl again. Heran on. 
The girl kept running, but Long-Tongue soon gained upon her and 
was very near her again when she dropped the flint arrow-points. As 
soon as Long-Tongue came to the arrow-points he stopped and said: “I 
will stop and gather these things. I will put them upon my arrows. 
That girl shall carry them on her back when we come back.” The girl 
ran as fast as she could, while the Raven flew overhead. As soon as Long- 
- Tongue had gathered all the flint points he remembered again about the 
girl. It was easy for the girl to tell when Long-Tongue had started, for 
when Long-Tongue started there was a rumbling sound upon the earth 
so that people could hear it for many miles around. The girl heard this 
and so did the Raven. The Raven said: ‘‘Run as fast as you can, for 
