At last the Man in the Moon, who protects all the Eskimo orphans, noticed how the men ill-treated Quadjaq, and came down to help him. He harnessed his dappled dog to his sledge and drove down. When he was near the hut he stopped the dog and called, "Quadjaq, come out."
The boy thought it was one of the men who wanted to plague him, and he said, "I will not come out. Go away."
"Come out, Quadjaq," said the Man from the Moon, and his voice sounded softer than the voices of the men. But still the boy hesitated, and said, "You will cuff me."
"No, I will not hurt you. Come out," said the Moon Man.
Then Quadjaq came slowly out, but when he saw who it was he was even more frightened than if it had been one of the men standing there. The Moon Man took him to a place where there were many large boulders and made him lie across one as if he were to be paddled. Quadjaq was scared but he did not dare disobey.
The Man from the Moon took a long, thin ray of moonlight and whipped the boy softly with it.
"Do you feel stronger?" he asked.