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the elephant and his army arrived on the scene, and were much 
surprised to find no one to fight with. However, one of them, with 
eyes sharper than the rest, noticed the camel’s knee, and said — ‘What 
is this 1 ?’ and went up and gave it a good bite, at which the camel 
roared out with pain, and this so frightened the elephant’s army 
that they turned tail and ran away. The camel’s army then left 
their hiding-places and pursued the fugitives, coming up at last with 
the elephant, who was quite alone and unprotected, and whom they 
killed, and then devoured. By this means the camel obtained all 
the corn for himself ; he thanked his army very much, and paid 
them well for the great service they had rendered him. Little 
people can beat big ones if they are only sharp enough.” 
“ One winter day a hyena climbed up a tree to gather some leaves 
for food. After he had collected a great many, he saw below him a 
little lamb who had wandered from her mother and was all alone. 
At this he came down so quickly that he lost all his leaves. When 
the lamb saw him she was very frightened, and said — ‘ Hyena, what 
do you want?’ he answered — ‘I want to eat you up.’ The lamb 
knew it would be of no good to run away as she would then very 
soon be caught, so she thought of the following plan to save her 
life. She said to the hyena — ‘ There is a pool of water a little way 
from here ; before you eat me you must go and get your mouth full 
of water,’ and the hyena went, and the lamb went off as fast as her 
legs could carry her towards the village. After she had proceeded 
some little distance on her way, up came the hyena with his mouth 
full of water. 1 How you can’t eat me,’ she said, 4 because your 
mouth is full of water.’ ‘ Oh yes,’ said he, and in so saying the 
water was of course spilt. Then replied the lamb — £ How you cer- 
tainly can’t eat me, because you have no water in your mouth,’ so 
he turned and ran away to get some more. On his return he found 
the lamb just entering the village, and when he followed her, she 
turned and said — ‘ How you can neither eat me with your mouth full 
or empty, for I am safe,’ and with this she jumped into the seriba, and 
the dogs came and drove the hyena away. So the lamb was saved 
by her cunning, and the hyena was very angry because he had lost 
so much time and also his leaves, for when he came to the place 
where he had left them the wind had blown them all away.” 
The following story of the rabbit and the hawk (?) is rather long, 
