34 TRUE STORIES OF THE HEAVENLY BEINGS. 
Raven went and took the sacred bundle down and untied it. He took 
from the sacred bundle the stones which the people used for smoothing 
their arrows. He also took a piece of flint out of the bundle and some 
white powder made from white clay, the arrow, and the flint knife. Then 
he told the girl to make three round tallow balls. The girl dug a hole 
in the ground and whenever she had tallow she threw it into the hole 
until it became full. Then the Raven told the girl to cover the ground 
in the center of the lodge with some tallow, and to put some on the sides 
of the wall, and some on the bundle and some on the stem grass that was 
lying about on the ground. After everything was covered with tallow 
inside of the lodge, then the Raven said: ‘‘Woman, it is time that we 
are going. Long-Tongue knows that you are preparing torunaway. He 
will be coming, but we will try and get away from this place as fast as we 
can. You have a four days’ journey to go to a certain place where the 
people will help you and save you. There is not an animal upon the 
earth that can overcome Long-Tongue; but there is one place where 
the people can destroy Long-Tongue. You must go to them.” Then the 
Raven sat down by the fireplace and said, ‘‘Now put your arms over my 
shoulders, then wrap up the things that I have taken from the bundle 
and tie them upon your back.” After she tied the bundle on her back 
she went and put her arms around the Raven’s neck. Then the Raven 
began to call. Hecalled four times. Then he flew out of the small hole 
with the girl on his back, and he flew a long distance. 
At last the Raven became tired and he placed the girl upon the ground 
and said, “‘I will fly overhead and I will guide you to the place where you 
are going.’’ The Raven told the girl to keep running to the east; that 
there was a place in the east which looked blue in color and that was 
where she was to go. The Raven told the girl to run as fast as she could 
and that she must not sleep for four days, because Long-Tongue knew 
that she was gone and that he was returning to his lodge. The girl kept 
running. 
After a while Long-Tongue ran to the lodge and when he reached the 
lodge he spoke and said, ‘‘Woman, open up the lodge.’’ He received no 
answer. Long-Tongue knew all the time that the girl was not there, and 
so he entered the lodge. He looked around and everything about the 
lodge was covered with tallow. Long-Tongue said: ‘That is one good 
thing that woman did. She put tallow everywhere. I like this tallow 
and I will eat before I think of going for her.’”’ He began to lick the 
ground. When he had licked all the tallow from the ground he then 
licked the tallow from the sides of the walls. As he ate upwards the 
opening at the top of his tongue seemed to grow. When he reached the 
