At once the Cows exclaimed, "Yes, eat him, Lion, because all day long the people drive us away from their fields."
"All right!" assented the man; "but first let us speak to the Dogs."
When they came to the Dogs' home, the man cried, "The Lion is going to eat me."
The Dogs said to the Lion, "Devour this man; for every day, when men are eating, they beat us away from the food."
At last the man said, "Sure enough, you will eat me up, Lion; but let us just go to the Cat."
When they reached the Cat's home, they found her sitting at the door, keeping her nice house. It had groves of cocoanut-palms around it. The Cat lived all alone.
The man said to her, "This Lion wants to eat me."
"Yes, Lion," the Cat replied; "but first you make a deep hole in the ground. We will race each other into the hole. If you jump in first, then I shall lose and you will win."
And the Lion ran, and jumped into the hole. Then the Cat covered him with earth and stones until he was dead. But before he died, the Lion called to the Cat, "Whenever I see your excrement (tai), I shall eat it." That is why the Cat hides her excrement, because she is afraid the Lion will come.
Now, the Lion is the dog of the Buso.