He said: “Bring him to me.”
All the animals ran after the hare, but he fled, and they could not catch him. The hare ran into a hole, at the mouth of which the animals set a snare, and then went away. The hare remained in the hole for many days, but [[185]]at length he managed to get out without being caught.
He went to a place where he found a bushbuck (imbabala) building a hut. There was a pot on the fire with meat in it.
He said to the bushbuck: “Can I take this little piece of meat?”
The bushbuck answered: “You must not do it.”
But he took the meat and ate it all. After that he whistled a particular tune, and there fell a storm of hail which killed the bushbuck. Then he took the skin of the bushbuck, and made for himself a mantle.
After this the hare went into the forest to get himself some weapons to fight with. While he was cutting a stick the monkeys threw leaves upon him. He called to them to come down and beat him. They came down, but he killed them all with his weapons.
This story terminates so abruptly that I have little doubt about its being merely a fragment. There is a story very similar to it, in which a pool of water is guarded by different animals in turn, all of which are deceived by the jackal. [[186]]