down to the ground. They found that the
sky was an arch or vault of solid rock hung above the earth and was
always swinging up and down, so that when it went up there was an
open place like a door between the sky and ground, and when it swung
back the door was shut. The Sun came out of this door from the east
and climbed along on the inside of the arch. It had a human figure, but
was too bright for them to see clearly and too hot to come very near.
They waited until the Sun had come out and then tried to get through
while the door was still open, but just as the first one was in the door-
way the rock came down and crushed him. The other sixwere afraid
to try it, and as they were now at the end of the world they turned
around and started back again, but they had traveled so far that they
were old men when they reached home.
8. THE MOON AND THE THUNDERS.
The Sun was a young woman and lived in the East, while her brother,
the Moon, lived in the West. The girl had a lover who used to come
every month in the dark of the moon to court her. He would come
at night, and leave before daylight, and although she talked with him
she could not see his face in the dark, and he would not tell her his
name, until she was wondering all the time who it could be. At last
she hit upon a plan to find out. so the