O you all know the little striped chipmunk which lives in our woods?
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 chipmunk 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 yourself with such hard labor?”
The geloori answered, “I cannot stop, great Shiva.
“The storm blew down the palm tree, where I built my nest.
“See! 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 day and all night I must dip the water from the sea.