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The main obstacle is the old man who never quits the place At last R. [[strikethrough]] comes in from outside & cries the dogs are eating [[/strikethrough]] makes some one outside cry out - "the dogs are eating your fish" - All rush out leaving R. & old man together. R. then jumps up & cries "don't you hear? the dogs [[strikethrough]] wild [[/strikethrough]] will eat all your fish; go ahead I'll follow you & he hurries the old man along through the door before the latter can think. When R. sees the old man well out in the low passage he hastily runs back claps the moon into the bag & flies through skylight just as the old man got outside. R. lit on the first tree and opening the bag cast the first piece he found, which was the sun, up into the sky and day light spread over the earth

The second piece he cast up in another direction & the moon was seen. The 3d piece he broke up into 
various small fragments and cast them up to form the stars and the two larger fragments thus thrown at the end he made Venus & jupiter.

R. now returned home and was feasted and thanked and laden with presents at the places he had passed on his way and when he came home he was made a great chief and
never did any more work, the others always supplying him with the best of everything

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