Story
of Rabbit and Bear
Once upon
a time, there lived as neighbours, a bear and a rabbit. The rabbit is a good
shot. In contrary, the bear is always clumsy ad could not use the arrow to good
advantage.
One day,
the bear called over the rabbit and asked the rabbit to take his bow and arrows
and came with bear to the other side of the hill. The rabbit was fearing to
arouse the bear's anger so he could not refuse it. He consented and went with
the bear and shot enough buffalo to satisfy the hungry family. Indeed he shot
and killed so many that there was lots of meat left after the bear and his
family had loaded themselves and packed all they could carry home.
The bear
was very gluttonous and did not want the rabbit to get any of the meat. Th e
rabbit could not even taste the blood from the butchering as the bear would
throw earth on the blood and dry it up. The poor rabbit would have to go home
hungry after his hard day's work.
The bear
was the father of five children. The youngest child was very kind to the rabbit.
He was very hearty eater. The mother bear always gave him an extra large piece
of meat but the youngest child did not eat it. He would take it outside with
him and pretended to play ball with the meat. He kicked toward the rabbit's
house and when he got close to the door he would give the meat with such a
great kick. The meat would fly into the rabbit's house. In this way, the poor
rabbit would get his meal unknown to the papa bear.
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