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stone, but the hare, who immediately stood up, thanked 
the lioness for the kind office she had performed, ran off, 
and was no more seen. 
J THE WISE AND FOOLISH HARES. 
THERE was formerly a particular kind of hare ac- 
customed to dwell on the mountains in holes dug by 
themselves. One, wiser than the others, made different 
entrances to her cell. Another, who was less wise, 
made a passage that went straight in, neither crooked 
nor divided. When the latter retired into her hole to 
sleep, some one kindled a fire on the outside, in the di- 
rection of the wind, which, blowing the smoke and heat 
into the hole, suffocated her ; but the former, having 
made different passages leading to his cell, easily escaped 
by the opposite passage from that into which the smoke 
and heat were blown. 
When the foolish hare felt the smoke and heat entering 
her cell, she called out loudly, " Brother, brother ! come 
and help me, for I am almost suffocated!" but the other 
paid no attention to her screams ; he only laughed, and 
in sport desired her to stand upon her head, which, while 
attempting to do, she died. On entering the hole after- 
wards the live hare took the dead one by the ears, and 
called out " Stand up, my sister, or I shall eat you up ; " 
but he found she was dead. 
, After this occurrence, the wise hare, that had horns 
on his forehead,* began to talk of his wisdom in providing 
against evil ; but while he was boasting, a creature 
came down from the heavens and snatched away his 
horns. The hare pursued as fast as he could. The 
. * There is an animal, resembling a hare, which has horns about four 
inches long. The scull and horns of one is in the Missionary Museum. 
