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WHY THE SUN TRAVELS REGULARLY
HE next day the children appeared at Klayukat's door and asked for the rabbit story.
"We meet the rabbits everywhere we go," said Antonio,—"on the hill, in the canyon, by the road, and under our own fig trees. We 'd like to know something about them."
"You may not learn much about the jack rabbit, but you will learn what a good thing he did for the world," returned Klayukat. Then, as he bored holes in some leggins, he recited this tale.
In the days of the ancients the sun did not move around the earth regularly, as it does to-day. At times it would stay away so long that all the animals would be nearly frozen. Then it would come
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