This subject is very popular in Kholui because of their every year spring water rising and comes from a poem by Nikolay Nekrasov, famous Russian poet of the 19th century. An old man relates how, with spring waters rising, he saw a group of hares stranded and about to drown. He rows out in his boat to save them, later they met another group of hares, then more and more. Finally Mazai spent the whole day saving hares.