ANCIENTLY the Jack-rabbit lived in a sage plain, and the Cottontail rabbit lived in a cliff hard by. They saw the clouds gather, so they went out to sing. The long-legged Jack-rabbit sang for snow, thus:
“U pi na wi sho, U pi na wi sho,
U kuk uku u kuk!”
But the short-legged Cottontail sang for rain, like this:
“Hatchi ethla ho na an saia.”
That’s what they sung—one asking for snow, the other for rain; hence to this day the Pók’ia (Jack-rabbit) runs when it snows, the Â′kshiko (Cottontail) when it rains.
Thus shortens my story.