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Rh at the large stars. | Now, these were the young men. The Uttle stars were the old ones. Then the girl | cried when she saw that she had [left] been taken away from her country. She staid there. || The star women were digging roots. The girl went along with them. | 20 She was told: "Don't break the ground where | there is a tree." The girl thought: "What do | the stars mean?" There was a tree, and she dug up | the ground. The ground was just thin. She thought she would look, || and down below she saw this world. She recognized 25 and tied herself to it, and let herself down. | Then she met her relatives. They said to her: "Where did you go? | We lost you." She said: "When I said || I would marry the little star, then 30 after I had slept, | when I woke up, I saw a star coming down for me. | I married the star. That little one was an | old man. The large stars were young people." | Then she told what she had done and how she had come down. || The Star noticed that the girl was not 35 coming back. He looked for her. She had gone down again. | At night they slept. The next morning when they got up, | it was noticed that the girl would not rise. They looked at her for a long time. | Then it became known that she was dead. She was killed by the Star | whom she had left. He struck her down.||
 * her relatives walking about. Then she cried. | She made something,

Now I have told you what a | girl did. |

Well, I'll tell you about Little Sun. |

There was a town, Chicken Hawk Nest. The chief said: ""I'll | go out to fight. Who among the young men can run fast?" | Little Sun said: "I'll start." It was already || noontime, but he did not 5 start. They thought he would start. | When the sun was nearly setting, they began to play ball. | When they had finished. Little Sun went there. They thought he would | not get there, for it was far. The place where he was to go was called | Kqawakmituk ([?] River). There was a town at Kqawakmituk. || When the sun was setting, 10 they played football. The game was going on, | and Little Sun was seen going along dragging his blanket. | They thought: "He must have started from Fish Hawk Nest." | He did not look as though he were strong. He was small. They did not know that he was a fast runner. | They said to him: "There is the tent of the chief." The name of this chief was || Not-sitting-down-Long. He went in. Then 15 they all went in | to hear the news. The chief from whom | Little Sun came was called Crazy Old Woman. |