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SO big, as, indeed, I told you they would, that they are now so 

 heavy that I can only carry one at a time." 



" Good,'.' said the leopard, " bring the others." 



So the hare took back the cub that he had brought, as if he 

 was going to fetch the others, but he had eaten them. So he 

 brought back the same cub each time to the leopard, until the 

 leopard thought that she had seen all her four children. " Thank 

 you, hare," said the leopard, " you have kept my cubs very 

 well." 



But the next day the hare killed that cub also and then they 

 were all finished. There were none left. Then the hare began to 

 make a hole in the ground when the leopard bad gone away to 

 hunt, and while she was away hunting, the hare took the asse- 

 gais of the leopard, and put them on the top of a burrow, and 

 when the leopard came, she said, " You, hare, what are you doing 

 with my assegais? 



"• Oh!" said the hare " I'm not doing anything. I am just 

 sitting here." 



Then the leopard said, " Why didn't you come to meet me, 

 to take the flesh for my cubs/" 



" Oh! " said the hare, " 1 don't like to meet you.' 



" Why not? " asked the leopard. 



" Oh," replied the hare, " you had better feed your cubs 

 yourself. 1 don't want to feed them any more." 



" Well," said the leopard, " all right. Go and show me 

 where my cubs are, and I will feed them if you don't want to." 



" Ah!" s^id the hare, " you used to eat your cubs!" 



*' What! " said the leopard. 



" Yes, every day you had part of a cub for breakfast, every 

 day a paw of one of your cubs. Wluit kind of flesh did you liave 

 every day?" 



*' If 3'ou don't go at once and show me where my cubs are 

 ni kill you," said the leopard. 



' Oh," lauglied the hare, " you will kill me. will you? Your 

 cubs are all finished. They are all eaten. You have eaten them 

 all. I did not eat alone, You had a piece of each of them." 



" But you told me that they were young bucks," growled Ihe 

 leopard . 



*' Oh! no, no!" cried the hare. " Oh! no, no; not at all! 



Then the leopard was very angry, and she glared at the hare, 

 nnd lashed her tail, and leaped at the hare, who threw one of the 

 assegais at the leopard. Then the leopard took the assegai and 

 tried to catch the hare, but the hare ran quickly inside the hole, 

 and just when the leopard put her nose into the hole and tried 

 to catch the hare, the hare came out of another hole near by and 

 threw another assegai *at the le'opard. When the leopard rushed 

 to that hole, the hare ran inside again with another assegai, and, 

 coming out of the first hole, threw assegais at the leopard until 

 she was dead. That is the end. 



