field I dance about —
Ha'nialfl! 111! Ha'nia 111! HI!
"Now," said the Rabbit, "when I sing 'on the edge of the field,' I
dance that way" — and he danced over in that direction — "and when I
sing 7;/ .'///.'" you must all stamp your feet hard." The Wolves thought
it fine. He began another round singing the same song, and danced
a little nearer to the field, while the Wolves all stamped their feet,
lie sang louder and louder and danced nearer and nearer to the field
until at the fourth song, when the Wolves were stamping as hard as
they could and thinking only of the song, he made one jump and
was off through the long grass. They were after him at once, but he
ran for a hollow stump and climbed up onthe inside. When the
the Wolves got there one of them put his head inside to look up, but
the Rabbit spit into his eye, so that he had to pull his head out again.
The others were afraid to try, and they went away, with the Rabbit
still in the stump.
25. FLINT VISITS THE RABBIT
In the old days Tawi'skala (Flint) lived up in the mountains, and all
the animals hated him because he had helped to kill so many of them.
They used to get together to talk over means to put him out of the
way, but everybody was afraid to venture near his house until the
Rabbit, who was the boldest leader among them, offered to go after
Flint and try to kill him. They told him where to find him, and the
Rabbit set