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young man. After Shadow-of-the-Sun and the young man had run a 
long way the young man gave out a little, and slowed up a little to 
get breath. Then he made another dash to win, but failed to outrun 
Shadow-of-the-Sun. When they got to the deep canyon where Shadow- 
of-the-Sun generally did the hardest racing, the young man failed to 
pass it. Shadow-of-the-Sun killed the young man. In this way he 
killed many who came to visit their village. The other chief would 
offer his own life in place of the visitors, but Shadow-of-the-Sun would 
never accept it. He would say: “That is where I get all my fun. If 
it were not for you I would never get any fun.” Thus through his 
visitor’s losing of the race the other chief would lose many of his 
people. 
Another of the four brothers now started out to visit the village 
of the two chiefs, stopping at the same placés his brothers had stopped. 
Four days he traveled, and he came to the high point by the village of 
the two chiefs, where he stopped for a while, and saw all kinds of 
games played by the young men and the young women. Late in the 
evening he went down toward the village, and met somebody there. 
When he met the man he asked him to tell him where he might stop 
over night. He was requested to go to the highest tipi that he had seen. 
When he entered the tipi the chief thought that he was the identical 
person who had once been killed. The chief requested him to pass on 
to the bed in the northwest part of the tipi. ‘The young man sat down, 
noticing that the chief looked as though he felt sad, and he wondered 
what troubled him. The chief raised his head and said to the young 
man: “There is some one in the next village that always takes the 
life of my visitors, and you are in danger, for there is always some one 
spying around to carry back news of some visitor’s arrival to Shadow- 
of-the-Sun. To-morrow morning you will be called upon to run a foot- 
race.” He, the chief, and the Coyote, went to the water to take their 
early morning bath before the race; then they went on their way to 
the starting place: The foot-race began, the chief running first, and giv- 
ing out; then the Coyote; then the young man raced with Shadow-of- 
the Sun. They ran a way, then slowed up, and the young man came out 
behind. They ran again till they came to the deep canyon, and the 
young man could not go over it. So Shadow-of-the-Sun turned around 
and killed the young man with his club. When the chief arrived, 
knowing that he was to lose some of his people, he offered his life to 
Shadow-of-the-Sun, but he would not accept the offer. 
At the home of the four brothers there was now only one left, and 
this last one set out to look for his brothers: He traveled all day, and 
