THE MOON-PAINTER. (JANNSEN.)

 In our next story we shall see the Devil and his THE MOON-PAINTER.
(JANNSEN.)

WHEN the Lord God had created the whole world, the work did not turn out so complete as it ought to have done, for there was an insufficiency of light. In the daytime the sun pursued his course through the firmament, but when he sank at evening, when the evening glow faded into twilight, and all grew dark, thick darkness covered heaven and earth, until the morning redness took the dawn from the hand of the evening glow and heralded a new day. There was neither moonlight nor starlight, but darkness from sunset to sunrise.

 The Creator soon perceived the deficiency, and sought to remedy it. So he ordered IlmarineNext

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Footnotes

1 Ilmarine or Ilmarinen is the Vulcan of the Finnish and Esthonian legends. He is represented in the Kalevala as a young and handsome hero, but deficient in courage. In Esthonian tales he generally