THE SWIFT-HAWKS AND SHADOW-OF-THE-SUN. 21 
and if the water in some part of the shell should turn into blood it 
would indicate that he was dead, and that she should leave the place; 
if it did not turn to blood, it would be a sign that he was still alive. 
He then set out, and traveled four days, just as his boys had traveled. 
At the end of the fourth day’s traveling he came to the village of the 
two chiefs, and stopped at the point where strangers always stopped. 
He waited here.until late in the evening, then went toward the village, 
and met a man whom he asked to direct him to the place where 
strangers generally stopped. He was told to go to the highest tipi he 
had seen, as there a chief was living. When he came to the place he 
entered, and was asked to pass on to the same place where visitors 
always were seated. The chief felt sad at seeing his visitor, for he 
knew that he would have to meet danger, and so he told the father that 
he would be called upon early next morning to run a foot-race. The 
man rested that night, looking for danger. Next morning the father 
was called by Shadow-of-the-Sun, who said that it had come to his 
mind that some one had arrived at the village. The father got up, and 
accompanied by the chief, and the Coyote, went to the creek for a bath 
before going to the race. The old man dived into the water, and when 
he came up, he had changed to a young man, and looked just exactly 
like the four young men who had been killed. They started to the 
scene of the foot-race. As soon as they got there the race began. The 
chief raced first, then the Coyote, and then the old man. The old man 
started the race with Shadow-of-the-Sun, getting on the right side of 
him, then on the left, and soon. He finally got up on his right shoulder, 
and the cruel chief saw that the man was giving hima close race. Then 
the man got down on the ground and climbed on Shadow-of-the-Sun’s 
left shoulder. As the chief saw the father he would run harder, ex- 
pecting to leave him behind. When they came to the place where 
Shadow-of-the-Sun always did his hardest racing he said to the old 
man: ‘This is the place where I do my best racing.’ The old man 
being on his shoulder, kicked him on the breast and in the back, and 
then went on and left him behind. 
During this race the old man had his bow and arrows with him, 
and when he had won the race with Shadow-of-the-Sun, he took his 
bow-string off his bow, taking it with his right hand and pulling it 
through his left hand four times, then hitting the cruel chief and 
killing him with the string. He then got the people to bring wood to 
burn up the body. They brought wood and piled it up on the ground 
and placed the body on the wood and burnt it. While the chief was 
burning, the old man called his boys to come out, for their tipi was 
