He asked the girl, and she liked him because he was good; and she was willing to have him for her husband. So she said: “I belong to the sun. Go to him. If he says so, I will marry you.”
Then Scar-face was very sad, for who could know the way to the sun? At last he went to an old woman who was kind of heart. He asked her to make him some moccasins, as he was going on a long journey. So she made him seven pairs and gave him a sack of food, and he started.
Many days he traveled, keeping his food as long as he could by eating berries and roots or some animal that he killed. At last he came to the house of a wolf.
“Where are you going?” asked the wolf.
“I seek the place where the sun lives,” said Scar-face.
“I know all the prairies, the valleys, and the mountains, but I don't know the sun's home,” said the wolf; “but ask the bear; he may know.”
The next night the young man reached the bear's house. “I know not where he stops. I know much country, but I have never seen the lodge. Ask the badger; he is smart,” said the bear.
The badger was in his hole and was rather cross at being disturbed. He did not know the sun's house, but said perhaps the wolverine would [pg 037] know. Though Scar-face searched the woods, he could not find the wolverine.
In despair he sat down to rest. He cried to the wolverine to pity him, that his moccasins were worn out and his food gone.
The wolverine appeared. “Ah, I know where he lives; to-morrow you shall see: it is beyond the great water.”