t one of them and bring it home." He obeyed
her, and tried his best to kill one, but came home unsuccessful. She
told him he must not despair, but try again the next day. She
accordingly left him at the place she got wood, and returned. Towards
nightfall, she heard his little footsteps on the snow, and he came in
exultingly, and threw down one of the birds which he had killed. "My
sister," said he, "I wish you to skin it and stretch the skin, and when
I have killed more, I will have a coat made out of them." "But what
shall we do with the body?" said she, for as yet men had not begun to
eat animal food, but lived on vegetables alone. "Cut it in two," he
answered, "and season our pottage with one half of it at a time." She
did so. The boy, who was of a very small stature, continued his
efforts, and succeeded in killing ten birds, out of the skins of which
his sister made him a little coat.

"Sister," said he one day, "are we all alone in the world? Is there
nobody else living?" She told him that those they feared and who had
destroyed their relatives lived in a certain quarter, and that he must
by no means go in that direction. This only served to inflame his
curiosity and raise his ambition, and he soon after took his bow and
arrows and went in that direction. After walking a long time and
meeting nothing, he became tired, and lay down on a knoll, where the
sun had melted the snow. He fell fast asleep; and while sleeping, the
sun beat so hot upon him, that it singed and drew up his bird-skin
coat, so that when he awoke and stretched himself, he felt bound in it,
as it were. He looked down and saw the damage done to his coat. He flew
into a passion, and upbraided the sun, and vowed vengeance against it.
"Do not think you are too high," said he, "I shall revenge myself."

On coming home, he related his disaster to his sister, and lamented
bitterly the spoiling of his coat. He would not eat. He lay down as one
that fasts, and, did not stir, or move his position for ten days,
though she tried all she could to arouse him. At the end of ten days,
he turned over, and then lay ten days on the other side. When he got
up, he told his sister to make him a snare, for he meant to catch the
sun. She said she had nothing; but finally recollected a little piece
of dried deer's sinew, that her father had left, which she soon made
into a string suitable for a noose. But the moment she showed it to
him, he told her it would not do, and b