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.
