When Rabbit reached the lodge where he was visiting, he gave his host the food he had not eaten. The man and his wife were glad to eat it, since they had been without food.
Next morning, the crier passed through the village, commanding the people to be stirring.
They said, “The Giant is the one for whom they are to kill game.” So they all went hunting. They scared some animals out of a dense forest and shot at them. Rabbit went thither very quickly. He found Giant had reached there before him and taken all the game. When Rabbit heard shooting in another place, he went thither, but again found the Giant was before him.
“This is provoking!” thought Rabbit.
When some persons shot at game in another place Rabbit noticed it, and went thither immediately, reaching the spot before the Giant.
“Friend,” he said to the man who had killed the deer, “let us cut it up.”
The man was unwilling. He said, “No, friend, the Giant will come by and by.”
“Pshaw, friend,” said Rabbit. “When one kills animals, he cuts them up and then makes an equal distribution of the pieces,” said the Rabbit.
Still the man refused, fearing the Giant. So Rabbit rushed forward and seized the deer by the feet.
When he had only slit the skin, the Giant arrived.