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So he went in, ynd was covered by the blankets. Now as- 

 soon OS the hare saw that the water wanted to boil, he cried out 

 " Open! '■ and. the buck let him come out. 



He then put some more wood on the fire, and said, " Xo\\\ 

 Mr. Buck, it's your turn again, come in." 



" No," said the buck, " the pot will soon boil! 



" No. no!" cried the hare, " that is quite a mistake; there is 

 plenty of time before the water boils; just come in for a little 

 minute! I want you to get quite well! 



So the buck went in, and the hare covered him up. Then 

 the water boiled, and the steam scalded the buck, and he was in 

 great pain, because he was scalded by the steam, and he cried 

 out in a loud voice, " Oh, Mr. Hare, open quickly for me; let me 

 get out. I can't bear the heat here!" 



" Oh, no!" said the hare. " You must pay me for my 

 beans " And the buck died. He died there in that hot water. 

 That is the end. 



IV. 



i^WAMPPU'NDLA AND THE HORN. 



After the buck was dead, the hare skinned the buck, and took 

 the large bone of one of the legs. He took this bone and made it 

 hollow, and used it as a horn for blowing. He tried to blow with 

 that horn, and it blew very well, so that people a long Vv^ay off 

 could hear the noise of the horn that the hare made out of the 

 bone of the leg of the buck. 



Then the hare went and found a piece of a calabash, and he 

 took that piece of the calabash, and put some fat in it. He used 

 it to keep some fat in. When he wanted the fat, he used to take 

 it out of that piece of the calabash. 



Then he went to the bank of the river, and he put the piece 

 of calabash that had the fat in it down on the bank of the river, 

 and he sat down on the grass beside the calabash. Then he be- 

 gan to blow the horn, making a noise " Ti-ti-ti " with that bone. 



Now when he made that noise with the horn, all the animals 

 in the bush heard the noise that he made ; and as soon as he 

 began to blow the horn, a great number of bucks that were in the 

 bush heard the noise of the hor-n, and they said, " Ho! what is 

 this? Somebody is blowing a horn; there is a dance some- 

 where! Let us go and see where is this dance at the kraal of tlie 

 horn-blower." 



So the bucks went and came to the place on the bank of 

 the river where the hare was blowing the horn. 



As soan as they came out of the bush, the hare tried to hide 

 the horn, putting it in the grass where he was sitting, and he 

 took up the calabash of fat from the ground, as if he had been 

 washing himself, and was about to rub himself with the fat. 



Then the bucks saw the hare sitting on the bank, and they 

 came to him and said: " Shawan, good morning, Mr. Hare; 

 where does this soimd of the blowing of the honi come from? 



