202 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 75 
Rudimentary Song (a) 
VoIcE 2 — 84 
Drum not recorded 
GR aS 
MAS a= Ss ulis 
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Story OF THE FROG’s CHILDREN 
This story was related in song, a portion of the melody being tran- 
scribed. The story, in the words of the interpreter, is as follows: 
The frog ate a great deal, and so he was very fat. The jack rabbit 
was as big as a dog, and he bit the frog on the face and leg. The frog 
was so fat he could not run away. The rabbit shook the frog and 
said, ‘You can’t make me let go.” Then the frog said, ‘‘ Yes, I can.” 
Afterwards the frog’s little children (tadpoles) ran races with a 
mouse. Before the race they shook hands, and the mouse said, ‘‘You 
can’t beat me, you have such fat tails’; but the frog’s little children 
won the race, 
