Atondido Stories
He quickly covered the hole and said to the gale, "You are too
strong. Sometimes blow hard, sometimes light, and sometimes
do not blow at all. The people on earth will want variety."
Again walking along the sky wall he came to a hole in the south,
and when this covering was cut a hot wind came rushing in car-
rying rain and spray from the great sea lying beyond the sky-
hole on that side. Doll closed this opening and talked to the
wind as before.
Then he passed on to the west where there was another hole
which admitted heavy rainstorms, with sleet and spray from the
ocean. When he had closed this and given the wind its instruc-
tions he went on to the northwest. There, when he cut away the
covering, a cold blast came rushing in, bringing snow and ice, so
that he was chilled to the bone and half frozen, and he made
haste to close the hole as he had the others.
He started to go along the sky wall to the north, but the cold
became more and more severe until at last he was obliged to
leave the wall and make a circuit to the southward, going back to
the north only when he came opposite the opening. There the
cold was so intense that he waited some time before he could
muster courage to cut the cover away. When he did so, a fearful
blast rushed in, carrying great masses of snow and ice, strewing
it over the entire plain of the earth. It was so bitter that he closed
the hole very quickly, and told the wind from that direction to
come only in the middle of the winter so that the people might
not be taken unawares, and might be prepared for it.
From there he hastened down to warmer climes in the mid-
dle of the earth plain, where, looking up, he saw that the sky was
supported by long, slender, arching poles, like those of a conical
lodge, but made of some beautiful material unknown to him.
Journeying on, he finally came to the village from which he
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