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shut ill till' hole. Now by and bye the liare began to be very 

 hungry in that hole. He had nothing to eat. He became hungry 

 and hungry and more hungry, until at last he ate one of his own 

 ears. He was so hungry and he had nothing to eat. 



But by and bye he began to be hungry again. He had noth- 

 ing to eat, so tliis time he ate one of his logs. He was so hungry 

 that he ate one of his legs. 



Then he became very thirsty. His mouth and his throat were 

 all hot and dry, and there was no water in that hole. There Was 

 nothing for him to drink. iSo he took one of his eyes, thinking 

 that because the tears had come out of his eyes he would find 

 some water in his eye to drink. 



Then, when the hare had eaten his ear and his leg and his 

 eye,' there came a big stonn of wind. And in this great storm of 

 wind the grass was blown out of the mouth of the hole in which 

 the haie was. 



Soon Nwampfuiidla could see outside. He came out, and 

 looked around carefully, but there was nobody there. He could- 

 not see anybody. Then he went to a beehive that he found in a" 

 tree near by, and took some of the wa.x that was there, and made, 

 two little horns of that wax, and put them on his head, so that* 

 it appeared that he had two little horns growing on his head.' 

 Then he went to the place where the king lives. 



Now when the king saw him, he called all the animals, and 

 said to them, " Who is this strange person that comes here? " 



Then they said, "Oh, chief, this seems to be that hare that 

 went inside the hole and mocked you." 



Then the hare said, " What, was that hare like me? I did 

 not know that there was anotlier hare like me. Was that hare 

 lame in one foot? Wa>i he blind in one eye? Was he without one 

 ear? Had he two little horns growing on his head? " 



Then the animals all said, " No, the hare that went into the 

 hole was not like this one." 



" No," said the hare, " I thought not. The. fact is that I 

 belong to a special tribe of hares. We are not like the ordinary 

 hares that you see every day. We are a special kind of hare. 

 We are all just like I am, with three legs and one ear and one 

 eye. But know this all of you, that I atn cleverer than any other 

 hare. I know how to run faster with three feet than anyone 

 that you ever saw; I can see farther than anyone else with one 

 eye; I c&n hear better than anyone of you, with one ear. I can 

 wait upon chiefs better than anyone else can." 



* Then the lion was pleased to see a hare like that. He had 

 never seen a hare of that tribe of hares before. He was ver}' 

 pleased to see this new kind of hare that could do all these 

 things with fewer legs and ears and eyes than other people. So 

 the lion said, " Well, hare, you had better be my servant. If 

 you can do all these things you had better do them for me. You 

 can be my servant.' S'So the hare became the servant of the lion 

 again. That is the end. 



