This is the great Kapiti Plain, all fresh and green from the African rains
A sea of gras, grass for the ground birds to nest in, and patches of shade for wild creatures to rest in;
With acacia trees for giraffes to browse on, and gras, grass for herdsmen to pasture their cows on.
But one Jahr the rains were so very belated, that all of the big wild creatures migrated.
The Ki-pat helped to end that terrible drought, and this story tells how it all came about!
This is the cloud, all heavy with rain, that shadowed the ground on Kapiti Plain.
This is the grass, all brown and dead, that needed the rain from the cloud...
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