Then each saw that the other had hold of the rope.
"How is this?" cried the whale. "I thought I was pulling Brother Rabbit's cow."
"That is what I thought," said the elephant. "Brother Rabbit is making fun of us. He must pay for this. I forbid him to eat a blade of grass on land, because he played a trick on us."
"And I will not allow him to drink a drop of water in the sea," said the whale.
But Little Rabbit sat in the bushes and laughed, and laughed, and laughed.
"Much do I care," he said. "I can get all the green things I want, and I don't like salt water."
—SOUTHERN FOLK TALE.
[A CHRISTMAS WISH]
