next time he came, as they were
sitting together in the dark of the asi, she slyly dipped her hand into
the cinders and ashes of the fireplace and rubbed it over his face, say-
ing. "Your face is cold; you must have suffered from the wind,''
and pretending to be very sorry for him, but he did not know that
she had ashes on her hand. After a while he left her and went away
again.
The next night when the Moon came up in the sky his face was cov-
ered with spots, and then his sister knew he was the one who had been
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coming to see her. He was so much ashamed to have her know it
thai li«' kept usfar away as he could at the other end of the skj all the
night. Ever since he tries to keep a long way behind the Sun. and
when he doc- sometimes have to conic near her in the west he makes
himself as thin as a ribbon so thai he can hardly be seen.
Some old people saj that the moon is a hall which was thrown up
against the sky in a game a lone- time ago. They say that two towns
were playing against each other, hut one of them had tin' best runners
and had almost won the came, when the leader of tl ther side picked
up the hall with his hand- a thine- that is not allowed in the game
and tried to throw it to the goal, hut it struck