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Day
      In the beginning, it was dark a lot of the time. Nobody' knew when day or night would come. Sometimes daytime came really slowly. Other times, it came very quickly.
     "Why do we never know when daytime is going to come?" asked a young man. He decided he would go and find the place where Day came from. "Please get me my boots, Mom, " he said. "I'm going to go away for awhile."
    After saying good-bye, the young man left to find the place where Day came from. He took his boat right through the middle of Day and Night. 
     On the other side of the ocean, he came to land.  It was nighttime when he arrived, so he decided to sleep. Jus t before dawn, he woke up. He was just in time to see some kind of round light coming up in the sky. What he saw was Day.
     The ball of lignt went up and started going around. The man started thinking. "I wonder how it is going to become night?" He had been watching a long time when he saw the daytime disappear in the same place where it had come from.
     Quickly, the young man jumped in his boat and started off in the direction where Day had disappeared. When he got to the place, he saw a light. It was so bright he could hardly look at it. "Oh, my eyes!" he said, turning away for a moment. It was like a bright ball inside a house. In the daytime it came out of the house; at night time it went back in.
     For awhile, the man just watched. Then he decided to go closer. Leaving his boat handy by the shore, he went up to the house and looked in the window. Inside was a round, bright object. Sleeping beside it was a man.
     Quietly the young man tiptoed into the house towards the bright ball. When he got close enough, he grabbed the bright thing, which was Day and ran out of the house.
     As he was running towards his boat, he heard an angry voice calling, "Give me back my light! Give me back my light." Just in time, the young man carrying Day got to his boat and jumped in. The other man had no boat in which to follow him.
     The young, man escaped in his boat, keeping the ball of light right beside him. When he got home, he let Day go and Day went all over the world. That is why from that time on, there has always been Day-time and Nignt-time.
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