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fun of him. Then the Sun told his other son, Big-Sun, to try and kill 
No-Tongue. No-Tongue was the only one living. He was the one 
who had not treated his father, the Sun, right, for the Sun had not 
treated No-Tongue_right in the first place. But No-Tongue had been 
assisted by the Moon. 
The third time the Sun fried to kill No-Tongue, he changed 
himself into a Buffalo, so that the Buffalo ran after No-Tongue, but 
the young man, No-Tongue, ran into a mud-hole, and the Buffalo 
fell in too. No-Tongue got out of the muddy place, but the Buffalo 
could not come out, because he was so heavy. No-Tongue told a lot 
of men to get some dried willows and to place them upon the back 
of the Buffalo. This they did. They set the wood on fire, so that 
the Buffalo burned up. 
In the evening, when the Sun and Moon were together in the 
heavens, the Sun said: “I shall do something to No-Tongue, some 
way.” The Moon heard the Sun say this. Then the Sun said to the 
Moon: “Just see what my son No-Tongue has done; he burned my 
back. To-morrow morning I am going to scalp him, so the people in 
the village will be afraid to see him, and so they will make fun of him.” 
Then the Moon went to No-Tongue in the night, and said: “My 
son, you always like to be up early in the morning, singing. I want 
you to get a good scalp to-night—one that has hair, just like this. Then 
kill a dog and get some of its blood, put the blood inside the scalp, and 
put the false scalp over your head so your hair will not show. 
The boy got the scalp with the hair on it, killed a dog, put some 
of the blood in the scalp and hung it over his bed. Early in the morn- 
ing, before the Sun rose, the boy arose, put the scalp over his head, 
went out, and sang some songs through the village. As the Sun came 
up in the east the boy heard a noise, and the Sun took the scalp off 
from the boy, so that the blood ran down. When the Sun saw that he 
was satisfied. The boy went into the lodge, washed, came out again, 
and the Sun saw that the boy had hair on, and that he was not really 
scalped. When the Sun reached the Moon he told him that he was 
going to let Nio-Tongue alone until he was old and great, and that he 
was then going to take him up to his home. 
The Moon came to No-Tongue and told him what the Sun, his 
father, had said. Years went by, and No-Tongue lived peacefully. 
Finally he became old and blind. At this time the people were about 
to move away from this place to another place. The Moon came and 
told old man No-Tongue that it was time his father, the Sun, was 
coming after him to take him up to his home; and that he himself 
would come with the Sun to take him up; that he should not be afraid. 
