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passed them and left them a long way before they got out of the boggy 
place. They began to gain on him again, and when they overtook 
Child-of-a-Dog again they commanded it to snow, and the snow made it 
so cold for ‘him that they passed him again. It was impossible for him 
to travel fast enough to get warm, but the other four men went on as 
if they were traveling on a nice cool day. He finally began to gain 
on them, and overtook them. Then he dropped the cockle burrs, and 
when these men saw the cockle burrs they said to one another: “Let 
us go in those cockle burrs and roll around in them, for that is the 
very thing that we have long been looking for.” The four men went 
into the cockle burrs, and they rolled around and put on their robes, 
while the other man was getting away ahead of them. At this place 
they forgot about the race, but finally they all jumped up, and said 
to one another: “Say, we are having a race, let us go.” So they went 
on, traveling fast, as the other man, Child-of-a-Dog, was away ahead 
of them. It did not take very long for them to overtake him again. 
When overtaking him these men commanded the prettiest birds to come 
around. There were plenty of birds of all kinds, and when Child-of-a- 
Dog saw this flock of birds he at once stopped and began to try to 
kill some of them. At this place he was detained for a while, trying to 
kill some of the pretty birds, and the other men were leaving him a 
long way behind, when he thought of his race, and finally traveled 
on and overtook them again. As he passed them he dropped the bow- 
string and extended one end toward the east and the other west, and 
then he went on and left these other men to get over a deep canyon 
which the bow-string made. The men went around to see if they could 
find a place to get over. Child-of-a-Dog was getting ahead of them, 
and leaving them far behind. Finally they found a way to get over and 
began again to gain on him. They overtook him and when passing 
him they did the same thing to him, leaving a deep canyon behind 
them, so that it was impossible for Child-of-a-Dog to get over. He 
stopped a moment and wondered how he was going to get over. When 
he was in great trouble he called for his father to come around and help 
him to get over. He finally succeeded in getting his father to help 
him. The Wind lay down, and had his son get on his back and then 
he went over the canyon. Child-of-a-Dog began to travel fast again in 
order to catch up with ‘his opponents, and he finally succeeded in over- 
taking them, and when he overtook them he dropped the looking-glass 
behind him and went on. When these men came to this place they 
saw that it had snowed and rained and the ground was very smooth 
and that it was impossible for them to travel. Child-of-a-Dog kept on, 
