So Scarface stayed there a long time and hunted with Morning Star.  One day they came near the water, and saw the big birds.

“Come,” said Morning Star; “let us go and kill those birds.”

“No, no!” replied Scarface; “we must not go there.  Those are very terrible birds; they will kill us.”

Morning Star would not listen.  He ran towards the water, and Scarface followed.  He knew that he must kill the birds and save the boy.  If not, the Sun would be angry and might kill him.  He ran ahead and met the birds, which were coming towards him to fight, and killed every one of them with his spear:  not one was left.  Then the young men cut off their heads, and carried them home.  Morning Star’s mother was glad when they told her what they had done, and showed her the birds’ heads.  She cried, and called Scarface “my son.”  When the Sun came home at night, she told him about it, and he too was glad.  “My son,” he said to Scarface, “I will not forget what you have this day done for me.  Tell me now, what can I do for you?”

“Hai’-yu” replied Scarface. “Hai’-yu, pity me.  I am here to ask you for that girl.  I want to marry her.  I asked her, and she was glad; but she says you own her, that you told her not to marry.”

“What you say is true,” said the Sun.  “I have watched the days, so I know it.  Now, then, I give her to you; she is yours.  I am glad she has been wise.  I know she has never done wrong.  The Sun pities good women.  They shall live a long time.  So shall their husbands and children.  Now you will soon go home.  Let me tell you something.  Be wise and listen:  I am the only chief.  Everything is mine.  I made the earth, the mountains, prairies, rivers, and forests.  I made the people and all the animals.  This is why I say I alone am the chief.  I can never die.  True, the winter makes me old and weak, but every summer I grow young again.”

Then said the Sun:  “What one of all animals is smartest?  The raven is, for he always finds food.  He is never hungry.  Which one of all the animals is most Nat-o’-ye[1]?  The buffalo is.  Of all animals, I like him best.  He is for the people.  He is your food and your shelter.  What part of his body is sacred?  The tongue is.  That is mine.  What else is sacred?  Berries are.  They are mine too.  Come with me and see the world.”  He took Scarface to the edge of the sky, and they looked down and saw it.  It is round and flat, and all around the edge is the jumping-off place [or walls straight down].  Then said the Sun:  “When any man is sick or in danger, his wife may promise to build me a lodge, if he recovers.  If the woman is pure and true, then I will be pleased and help the man.  But if she is bad, if she lies, then I will be angry.  You shall build the lodge like the world, round, with walls, but first you must build a sweat house of a hundred sticks.  It shall be like the sky [a hemisphere], and half of it shall be painted red.  That is me.  The other half you will paint black.  That is the night.”