the house, and
therefore they had a thick layer of ingrown dirt in their coats. Now he
took them and cast them out into the sea, that they might become clean
again. The dogs, little used to going out at all, were nearly frozen
to death by that cold water; they ran about, shivering with the cold.

Then the Obstinate One took a dog, and cast it up in the air, but
it fell down heavily to earth again. He took another and did so, and
then a third, but they all fell down again. They were still too dirty.

But the Obstinate One would not give in, and now he cast them out
into the sea once more.

And when he then a second time tried casting them up in the air,
they stayed there. And now he made himself a sledge, threw his team
up in the air, and drove off.

But when he came to the rock he was to drive round, this Obstinate
One said to himself:

"Why should I drive round a rock at all? I will go by the sunny side."

When he came up alongside, he heard a woman singing drum songs, and
whetting her knife; she kept on singing, and he could hear how the
steel hummed as she worked.

Now he tried to overpower that old woman, but lost his senses. And
when he came to himself, his heart was gone.

"I had better go round after all," he thought to himself. And he went
round by the shady side.

Thus he came up to the moon, and told there how he had lost his heart
merely for trying to drive round a rock by the sunny side.

Then the Moon Man bade him lie down at full length on his back,
with a black sealskin under, which he spread on the floor. This the
Obstinate One did, and then the Moon Man fetched his heart from the
woman and stuffed it in again.

And while he was there, the Moon Man took up one of the stones from
the floor, and let him look down on to the earth. And there he saw
his wife sitting on the bench, plaiting sinews for thread, and this
although she was in mourning. A thick smoke rose from her body; the
smoke of her evil thoughts. And her thoughts were evil because she
was working before her mourning time was passed.

And her husband grew angry at this, forgetting that he had himself
but newly bidden her work despite her mourning.

And after he had been there some time, the Moon Man opened a stone
in the entrance to the passage way, and let him look down. The place
was full of walrus, there were so many that they had to lie one on
top of another.

"It is a joy to catch such beasts," said the Moon Man, and the
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