He told him how mean his mother and aunt were to him.

The old Moon was very angry.
He took the star-baby by the hand and went tramping back through the sky to find the cruel mother and her sister.
Now, the girls had been getting rather tired of their sky-_campoodie_ and they longed for their home on the earth.

They used to go to a hole in the sky and look down on the earth, wishing they were there again.

Indeed, at the time the star-baby went off to find his grandfather, the Moon, they were at the hole in the sky, amusing themselves by looking through and indulging in vain regrets that they were no longer there.
"Oh, sister," suddenly said the elder, "there goes our old grandfather! Poor old man! I wish we were with him! See, he's carrying big bags of wild wheat-flour and acorns!" Just then the old Moon came tramping up, and the whole sky trembled.

The people on earth said it was thundering.