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Khmer tale

Adventures Rabbit

Hare was famous among the beasts of his intelligence and astute. For his wisdom called beasts hare Judge. In truth, the hare did not always emerge unscathed, but this very few people know. In any case, the life of a hare was full of adventure, always something he got into all sorts of alterations! About all not even tell. But some things you can tell.

Once a rabbit jumped out of the ordinary alterations and lay down to rest in the bushes near a village. Tired hare and was terribly hungry. He saw that the road is an old woman, her head has a basket of ripe-prespelyh bananas and thought: "I'm so tired, so hungry. Do I need to eat. That would eat bananas from the old woman's basket! Perhaps the best way to pretend to be dead."

Rabbit ran by the roadside, overtook an old woman with bananas, crawled out onto the road, lay down and pretended to be dead.

She saw the old hare, decided that he was indeed dead, and cried loudly:

• Lucky me today! She went to sell bananas - hare found. Get busy I have it with him.

She put the old lady rabbit in a basket of bananas. Rabbits only this right! While the old woman walked, he ate all the bananas, jumped out and was gone. Old woman came to the market, put the basket on the ground, looking, no bananas, no hare. A well-fed rabbit meanwhile, ran into the woods. He wanted it to quench his thirst and went to the shore deep pond. He bent down to the water and most have already been gathered to drink, I heard angry voices slugs, who lived in this pond.

• Hey you, rabbit, how dare you drink water from our pond!

• And why would I not drink, - replied the hare, - whose is it water?

• Ours!

• Well, if so, - smiled rabbit - then let's wager: who is faster obezhit around the pond, that will be water. Will I first - napyus heart's content, you will overtake me - I will not drink.

Slugs agreed. But they were very cunning and immediately shared a place along the coast; 
Slugs took their seats, and the first slug shouting:

• Well, rabbit, run!

Started a hare from all legs. Ran a few steps and screams.

• Hey, slugs! Where are you?

A slug ahead of the other answers:

• Hare! We are here!

"How - surprised a rabbit - they overtook me?" - And raced even faster. But, as he tried rabbit, slugs have always proven to come.Coward hare and ran away from the pond.

Since rabbits do not drink water from the pond, the sweet dew quench their thirst.