it with a tear from his eye. Then he aimed carefully. Twang! The arrow flew straight to the sun and chipped off a number of pieces from its face.
The fiery fragments came whirling down to the earth and set everything on fire. Jack Rabbit had to race before the flames. He jumped and jumped, but the flames ate his toes off. He hopped faster, but the fire caught his legs and burned them off. He jerked on still faster, but the sparks flew on his body and burned it up. His head bounded on still faster. The flames reached for it. The head stumbled against a stone. Then from Jack Rabbit's eyes poured such a flood of tears that it quenched the fire, and the earth was saved.
Jack Rabbit crouched down under a bush near the stone until his body and legs and toes grew again. Then he ran back to his waiting children.
He complained to the animals about the sun's irregularity. "It either stays away so long that we freeze, or it comes so close that we scorch," he said. "And if we complain, it tries to burn the whole world up. I think we ought to order its movements."
The other animals answered, "We think so too. Let us call a council and order the sun's movements."
So they called a council of all the animals on the face of the earth. They sat around in a circle,
