The hare answered, mocking: “Please let me have this little bit only.”
After that they became companions. The hare proposed that they should fasten each other’s tails, and the inkalimeva agreed. The inkalimeva fastened the tail of the hare first.
The hare said: “Don’t tie my tail so tight.”
Then the hare fastened the tail of the inkalimeva.
The inkalimeva said: “Don’t tie my tail [[184]]so tight;” but the hare made no answer. After tying the tail of the inkalimeva very fast, the hare took his club and killed it. The hare took the tail of the inkalimeva and ate it, all except a little piece which he hid in the fence.
Then he called out: “The fat belonging to all the animals has been eaten by the inkalimeva.”
The animals came running back, and when they saw that the inkalimeva was dead they rejoiced greatly. They asked the hare for the tail, which should be kept for the chief.
The hare replied: “The one I killed had no tail.”
They said: “How can an inkalimeva be without a tail?”
They began to search, and at length they found a piece of the tail in the fence. They told the chief that the hare had eaten the tail.