(第二)風雲雪
Just then the clouds’ lawyer, the wind, came to defend them. “Whom are you scolding?” he asked.
“You think the Creator should have made the snow king of a world, I suppose, and that there is no place or use for the clouds.
“You talk so much that we can not find opportunity to tell what we are good for. You are not the only helper of man and of growing things in the hot summer time.
“Do you remember when the great General Dhi-Sing led five thousand soldiers to battle? They traveled [[91]]over mountains and through wild places until they were worn and weary.
“They found water to drink by the Gold Mine Mountain and stopped there to rest; but there were no trees or growing things on that mountain and they could find no shade.
“The sun sent down great heat and they suffered so that they could not rest. Then they held their faces up to heaven and in anguish they cried, ‘Oh, sun, why shine so hot to-day?’
“Then they looked to the east and saw our brother, the cloud, beginning to appear.
“ ‘Why do you not come to us, and cover the face of the sun that we may have shade and rest?’ they pleaded of the cloud; and so our brother came and stood between the earth and the sun.
“ ‘Oh, this is rest, rest,’ said the soldiers in great relief. ‘How we wish that the cloud might always shield us from the burning fire of the sun.’