ould wait for another night, but greed whispered again, and listening
to its voice, he stole the leggings from under the Sun's head.

"Carefully he crept out of the lodge, looking over his shoulder as he
went through the door. Then he ran away as fast as he could go. Over
hills and valleys, across rivers and creeks, toward the east. He
wasted much breath laughing at his smartness as he ran, and soon he
grew tired.

"'Ho!' he said to himself, 'I am far enough now and I shall sleep.
It's easy to steal from the Sun--just as easy as stealing from the Bear
or the Beaver.'

"He folded the leggings and put them under his head as the Sun had
done, and went to sleep. He had a dream and it waked him with a start.
Bad deeds bring bad dreams to us all. OLD-man sat up and there was the
Sun looking right in his face and laughing. He was frightened and ran
away, leaving the leggings behind him.

"Laughingly the Sun put on the leggings and went on toward the west,
for he is always busy. He thought he would see OLD-man no more, but it
takes more than one lesson to teach a fool to be wise, and OLD-man hid
in the timber until the Sun had travelled out of sight. Then he ran
westward and hid himself near the Sun's lodge again, intending to wait
for the night and steal the leggings a second time.

"He was much afraid this time, but as soon as the Sun was asleep he
crept to the lodge and peeked inside. Here he stopped and looked
about, for he was afraid the Sun would hear his heart beating. Finally
he started toward the Sun's bed and just then a great white Owl flew
from off the lodge poles, and this scared him more, for that is very
bad luck and he knew it; but he kept on creeping until he could almost
touch the Sun.

"All about the lodge were beautiful linings, tanned and painted by the
Moon, and the queer signs on them made the old coward tremble. He
heard a night-bird call outside and he thought it would surely wake the
Sun; so he hastened to the bed and with cunning fingers stole the
leggings, as he had done the night before, without waking the great
sleeper. Then he crept out of the lodge, talking bravely to himself as
cowards do when they are afraid.

"'Now,' he said to himself, 'I shall run faster and farther than
before. I shall not stop running while the night lasts, and I shall
stay in the mountains all the time when the Sun is at work in the
daytime!'

"Away he went--running as the Buffalo runs--straight ahe