HOW THE CHIPMUNK GOT THE STRIPES ON
ITS BACK.

  
 

O you all know the little striped chip-
munk which lives in our woods?

oy" He has a cousin in far off India called
.@ the geloori.

It is said the stripes came on the back of the
geloori in a wonderful way.

One day the great Shiva saw a little gray chip-
munk on the seashore.

He was dipping his bushy tail into the sea, and
shaking out the water on the shore.

Twenty times a minute he dipped it into the
ocean.

In wonder, Shiva said, “What are you doing,
little foolish, gray, geloori? Why do you tire your-
self with such hard labore”

The geloori answered, “I cannot stop, great
Shiva.

“The storm blew down the palm tree, where |
built my nest.

“Seel the tree has fallen seaward, and the nest
lies in the water; my wife and pretty children are
in it: I fear that it will float away. Therefore all