Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-07-15

actory, though from <bAxnv 10
up all the time he must hkr1 %
deal out OF it after all.
But 1t happened after a Which,
Tongul Kob. the light mountain
ed to go to sleep, as it would somef
and no o light carne forth. 81
RAM could not even see the girl
she went to the fountain. Thfs -
him very sad. but he waited Ds-is-.
thinking all the time that the ~
would shine out again soon. PM
did not. RAM grew more and
dowcast, and at last he became 80
desperate, and vowed that somsfhtt
must be done. So he went up ~
OF the mountain and looked dow ~
the crater itself. And there he ss[
mighty ball of flre, big as a monr.,
itself. throwing out light bright as u,
day now is, but the cracks in the
oil Tongul kob were all closed SO -
none or the light could get out. A~,|
besides the ball of fire he could ~
Somsig, the god of the mountain -
fast asleep.
.Ho, there" cried RAM, wake I'm AL,
give us some light. Our people are
dying of the darkness" though the tr,,.
Is That this worried RAM very lit,l-
what he wanted the light foIzeing II
that he could look upon Chelyne. u
Old Somsig opened one eye and said.
ma that you We're saying. youn.
MANI"
Wake up and give US some Ieh. &,
BE off and don't bother me any mo-
I'll make you wish you had never hes-d =
light" .
Give us light or I'll come dow a.,
force you to do So"
"Oh, no; oh, no. was all old sonSr..
swered, and he closed his eye and wen, =,
sleep again.
Now was RAM very wroth indeed. AM,
he vowed hat he would go down In and
fight Somsig till he would agree to rs,s
open the mountain and let the light shin.
out. So he went back to his home ard ma,
on his chain shirt, made of ten thopss,4
silver links, and took his mighty round
shield. made of solid gold. and his gre,,
broad sword. made of bright iron and "a
sharp that when he whirled ii about 81,
whistled in the wind and slised off the bis.
gest trees as a scythe mows off the grass
Then he STROBE off up the mountain, and
bodily went Gown in the crater. shteldlr,
his eyes from the great light with opo
hand. He was climbing down very care.
fully so that he shouldn't waken Somsio
but just before he reached the bottom he
uniuckily loosened a round stone, and il
fell and struck Somsig on the foot. and he
reused u2 and saw RAM and seized hs
club and made at him, and they fought.
There never was such a battle anywhers
before or since as this between old Somsig
the god of the mountain of Tongul Kob,
and RAM, the giant in love with Chelyne,
the beautiful daughter of old Kolb, the ar.
row head maker. 1t shook the mountain.
and the whole earth, SO that everybody
was frightened. At last, after they had
fought a long time, RAM gave old Somsig
a flercer blow than he ever got before, and
the old god of the mountain fell down
and began thrashing about most furiousiy.
and at that moment the began
to quake harder than ever and all the fires
from below burst up as If the whole earth
would be torn to pieces; and the mighty
ball of fire which RAM had seen was
hurled upward into the sky and became
the sun And RAM himself was half tori
to pieces, and his great gold shield Wa,
cast up and became the moon as we set
it this day. And his coat of silver chair
was torn off and scattered in the heaven.
n became the stars which help tn,
moon to give light. And his famous swort
went farther than all the rest, and evel
since 1t has been the comet which comes
sometimes and hangs over us as If I
would fall. But RAM himself fell bacl
into the sea, and swan ashore, anl
Chelyne, the daughter of old Kolb, thu
arrowhead maker, became his wife. A
for old Somsig, he never got well of thu
blow RAM gave him, and even to thi!
time you may feel and hear him thrash
ing about when the ground trembles anC
the houses fall down.