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to eat. The next morning he started out and traveled all day until 
late in the evening, when he again found a fireplace where each of 
his boys had stopped over night. He knew his boys had stayed here 
over night. He took his bow and arrow and shot toward the timber 
and killed another deer, which he had for his meat. On the fourth 
day he started again, and traveled all day until he arrived at a high hill 
at the edge of the village. Here visitors were always expected to stop 
before entering the village. He noticed the young folks playing all 
sorts of games in the village. Later on, he went down toward the 
village and noticed a certain man of whom he asked where visitors 
were accommodated. He was told to go to the middle of the village, 
to the highest tipi he could. see. There he went. When he found the 
place he entered the tipi, and was told to go to the northwest bed, which 
was for visitors. The chief saw that this was an old man that had come 
to visit him. He told him that there was one thing that always hap- 
pened to his visitors; that there was a certain man, Shadow-of-the-Sun, 
who was always watching for ‘his visitors, and that, perhaps, some one 
had already noticed ‘his arrival, so as to carry the news back to him. 
As he hung up his weapons the old man noticed the weapons and 
things of his boys hanging up beside his bed. Now, he began to think 
that there was danger in the village, and that his boys had probably 
been killed, but he always had considered that he had as great powers 
as anybody else. He was given something to eat. The rest of the 
night he sat up with the men talking about things of the past. After 
midnight all the visitors returned to their homes. The old man went 
to bed and to sleep, for he had traveled a long way from home. “On 
the next morning he was called to race. He went down to the flowing 
water, jumped in, and when he came out of the water he was changed 
to a young man, and he returned to the chief’s tipi. Now the chief 
went with him to the race course, and the old man and the two chiefs 
went the same distance from the village as the boys had gone, to start, 
but when they had reached the starting place the old man refused to 
start the race at this point, for he said he had never raced from a 
place so close to the village. It was the custom to go out a distance 
from the village and race back. Shadow-of-the-Sun gave a whoop, 
and said it would be the first time he had ever had a hard race. Again 
they went on, till they had doubled the distance, and the evil spirited 
chief said this was another starting place, but the old man refused to 
stop. Shadow-of-the-Sun gave another whoop, and said he was going 
to have a hard race. Again they went a distance equal to the last, 
where Shadow-of-the-Sun said there was another starting place, but 
the old man refused to stop. Shadow-of-the-Sun gave a whoop and 
