Songs of the Tewa, by Herbert Joseph Spinden, [1933], at sacred-texts.com

XVII

THE RABBIT BY THE RIVER

There by the river runs a little rabbit.
Why did you not catch him?
Why did you not kill him?
We feel like doing just that!
Bent over like a little old man
Off he goes with a watermelon;
Bent over like a little old man
Off he goes with a muskmelon!