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Rh Hare slept in the bucket of ashes and told the Boy to sleep in the bed. In the morning the man said, "Why is the Hare so dirty and full of ashes?" The Boy said, "Because he said the Chief must sleep in the ash bucket."

The Hare said, "Now let us go home." The Boy said, "All right." They passed a garden and the Hare said he would go in and take enough for both and they would eat it later on. While the Hare was gathering food the Boy gathered some too and hid it in his loin cloth. They went on together and by and bye the Hare said, "Let us eat," and the Boy said, "Yes." The Hare said, "I only took for myself; I have none for you." The Boy said, "I have a little." The Hare said, "Let me see it"; so the Boy brought it out. It was much more and much nicer than what the Hare had; so the Hare said, "All right, you can eat mine too; I don't want it. Did I not tell you you were not to gather any?" So the Boy had the Hare's food too.

They came to another garden, and it all happened as before.

Then they tried to get home, but the Hare died because he had eaten nothing.

There was a water-fowl called a Quasi and a land-fowl called a Chinanga. The Quasi made friends with the Chinanga, and said, "Now we are brothers." He came to see him and brought him a fish and said, "When you come to visit me, you must do the same."

Now some one came to the Chinanga and said, "The Quasi is dead." He went to look for it, and met a land-bird. It said it would come too, so they went together to look for the Quasi's home; but they could not find it. They came back and the Fowl which the Chinanga had met said, "Come and see my home." So he went and he