And tho lion s.-iid, " Well my family arc so busy; they are 

 always busy. Tlioy like to eat and sleep. They do not want to 

 wash those things and prepare them for eating. They say that 

 it is not nice work for lions; but they do like to eat those things 

 when they are made ready." 



" Ah!" said the hare. " Well, I can do that work. I, the 

 hare. If you will give me a little bit of it, I can make the 

 food ready for your family." 



" Oh I " said the lion, " that is good. I shall be glad to have 

 somebody like you to do that work. I, myself, like that food, 

 but I have no one to prepare it for me." 



So the lion gave the food to the hare, and he went away a 

 little distance to a pond, which was near that place, to wash the 

 meat. As soon as he got into the path outside the lion's kraal, 

 lie found his grandmother standing by the way. 



" Well, grandmother," said the hare. " are you here? " 

 The grandmother said, " Yes, my grandchild; 1 always stop 

 in this place, as I am too old to walk ^any more. I always stay 

 in the same place. 1 am hungry, for I cannot get anything to 

 eat." 



" Well," said the hare, " I have plenty of meat; plenty of 

 flesh that my master, Mr. I. ion, has killed. I am just going to 

 wash this for him so that he may eat it." 



Then the hare went to the pond and washed the meat, and 

 when he came bade he gave half of it to his grandmother. 



But while the hare was going back 'to the lion's kraal he 

 began to fear, and he thought, " The lion will be very angry with 

 me, for I have only a little bit of the meat he gave me. 1 have 

 given some of it to my grandmother. What shalll do? What 

 can I do to deceive the lion? 



He stood in the path and thought. Then he went into the 

 bush, and scratched himself agamst the thorns and the branches 

 so that the blood came out over all his body, and then he went 

 back to the lion's krani with that little piece of the flesh. 



When he came to the lion's kraal, the lion said, " Well, 

 where is the meat? You took a lot of it. but there is only a little 

 jiow. Where is the rest? 



The hare said : " Well, my master, at the pond where I 

 went to wash the meat, there are many birds of prey, eagles and 

 all kinds of birds of prey. As soon as they saw me with this 

 fli'sh. they came and tried to take the flesh from me. and they 

 scratched me all over like this. You see the blood is all over my 

 body. They tried haid to take the flesh from me. and all that I 

 could do was to lie down on the ground with this little piece of 

 meat. They took away all the rest." The lion was deceived. 



The next day, too, Ihe same thine was done; but the lion 

 began to think," and said to himself. " I must follow this 

 Nwampfundla, the hare, and see how those birds of prey take 

 'the lleish f)'om him." 



