took a good run. and
jumped up at the vine. He kept on running and jumping up at the
vine until the Deer came along and asked him what he was doing?
"Don't you see?" says the Rabbit. "I'm so strong that I can bite
through that grapevine at one jump."
The Deer could hardly believe this, and wanted to see it done. So
the Rabbit ran back, made a tremendous spring, and bit through the
vim 1 where he had gnawed it before. The Deer, when he saw that,
said. " Well, I can do it if you can." So the Rabbit stretched a larger
grapevine across the trail, but without gnawing it in the middle. The
Deer ran back as he had seen the Rabbit do, made a spring, and struck
the grapevine right in the center,when the Rabbit looked hack the Deer
had eonjured the stream so that it was a large river. The Rabbil was
never able to get hack again and is still on the other side. The rabbit
that we know is only a little thing that came afterwards.
29. WHY THE MINK SMELLS
The Mink was such a great thief that at last the animals held a coun-
cil about the matter. It was decided to burn him. so they caught the
Mink, built a great tire, and threw him into it. As the blaze went up
and they smelt the roasted flesh, they began to think he was punished
enough and would probably do better in the future, so they took him
out of the tire. But the Mink was already burned black and is black
ever since, and