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Rh and the Tiger ran after him. They ran a long way and at last they came to a Hare's garden. The Hare cried out, "Take care! Why do you run so hard? You will break down my plants. Wait a little!" The Man waited and the Tiger came up. The Hare said, "What is this indaba (affair)?" and the Man said, "This Tiger was caught in my trap and he promised that if I let him go it would be all right. I let him out and he ate my child and now he wants to eat me. So I ran away and now we have come here."

The Hare said, "We ought to go back to the place where the trap is so that I can see it."

They went back, all three, and the Man showed him the trap.

The Hare looked at the trap and then he said to the Tiger, "I ought to see how you were caught in this trap." The Tiger said, "It was like this," and he went into the snare again.

The Hare said to the Man, "All right, this time do not let him out."

So the Tiger stayed there and by and bye he died.

Makombe and his two brothers went out for a walk one day. They came to the stump of a tree, where a tree had been felled. It struck Makombe's pot and he took a stone and struck at it. When it grew late the three wanted to return; when they came to this spot there was a great river in flood and a Duck was swimming on it, smoking a pipe. One of them asked him, "How can we get across, because the river has come down in flood?" He answered, "No, you were the one who struck the stump with a stone." He said, "No, that was Makombe." The Duck said, "Very well, take hold of my wing." He had one wing which was strong; but the other was wounded. The boy held the