So the Sun in her dress of gold, the Wind in a trailing dress that
rustled as she passed, and the Moon in a wonderful gown of silver
started out for the party with the Thunder and Lightning. Oh, it was a
supper to remember! The table was spread with a cloth of rainbow.
There were ices like the snow on the mountain tops, and cakes as soft
and white as clouds, and fruits from every quarter of the earth. The
three sisters ate their fill, especially the Sun and the Wind, who
were very greedy, and left not so much as a crumb on their plates. But
the Moon was kind and remembered her mother. She hid a part of her
supper in her long, white fingers to take home and share with her
mother, the Star.
Then the three sisters said good-bye to the Thunder and Lightning and
went home. When they reached there, they found their mother, the Star,
waiting and shining for them as she had said she would.
"What did you bring me from the supper?" she asked.
The Sun tossed her head with all its yellow hair in disdain as she
answered her mother.
"Why should I bring you anything?" she asked. "I went out for my own
pleasure and not to think of you."
It was the same with the Wind. She wrapped her flowing robes about her
and turned away from her mother.
"I, too, went out for my own entertainment," she said, "and why should
I think of you, mother, when you were not with me?"
But it was very different with the Moon who was not greedy and selfish
as her two sisters, the Sun and the Wind, were.
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