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 loses shall smoke no more at all." Hare agreed to that.

Then Fox said, "We will run on flat, open ground!"

Hare said, "Oh, no! I like to run where there are fallen logs and much brush."

Well, Fox assented to that, so they began to run through a brushy piece of country, full of fallen logs, Fox had to jump over the logs, while Hare always ran underneath them and so easily kept ahead. Then Fox got angry. He gave a great spring, and seized Hare as he came out from underneath a log, and said,

"Hereafter you shall be only an ordinary hare. As you like to run in the brush, you shall always live in that kind of a country. You shall no longer be the greatest smoker of all the people."

Then Fox took Hare's pipe and went home.