60 AUTUMN STORIES AND POEMS 



Perhaps you do not think from this account 

 that he is very pretty. 



But his mother thinks he is the sweetest thing 

 that ever was born. 



T *Vnen he asks her to tell him a story, she 

 tells him strange tales of the sun and moon and 

 stars, and of the curious things on earth. 



Hare is a story that she told him about the 

 moon: 



One day the moon said to the hare, " Go to 

 the earth. Tell the people that, just as I rise 

 again after dying away, so shall 

 they die and again come to life.' 

 But the stupid hare did not 

 carry the kind message right. 



He told the people that the moon 

 boasted that she rose again, but 

 that they died forever. 

 When the moon heard 

 this, she was very angry. 

 She took up an axe to cut off 

 the hare's head. 



But the axe missed and only 

 cut his lip open. Ever since that time all the 

 hare's children have a "hare lip." 



