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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.

 

 

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He ran a hare ran, ran to the river and did not know how the other side to move. Navigate rabbit could not. Suddenly sees floating in the river crocodile. Thinks the hare: "And I do not swim in the crocodile riding?" So he asks:

• Brother crocodile, for that you have sores on the skin? I do not whether to withdraw it? I can cure you from this disease. If perevezesh me across the river, gladly will help you.

• I would have moved you, but just can not believe that you heal me.

• Be calm, instant cure - assures crocodile hare.

Disgusting was the hare sit on the lumpy back of a crocodile. Narwhal it large leaves to podstelit them under.

• Why do you want the leaves? - Surprised crocodile.

• In memory, your kindness will forever remain in my heart - without batting an eye lied hare and settled comfortably on the head of a crocodile.

Crocodile swam to the opposite shore. Jumped off a hare with a crocodile head to the shore and shouted: Your blisters, brother, got you inherited from your honorable ancestors. They no cure! Lol!

Angry crocodile, but that now can you do with an arrogant hare, which is so cleverly led him?

Hare laughed and carelessly ran on. Ran back to the river and the crocodile waiting for him there. Saw the hare, and planned to cheat: frozen without movement - go figure out a crocodile or a log.

He saw a hare in the water something floating. It seemed to him that this is a log, but then he began to doubt it: I'm not a crocodile wants to cheat? Hare stopped and shouted:

• If you log, then swim against the current! If a crocodile, then going with the flow!

He heard a crocodile swam against the tide. Laughed the hare:

• Q-and-and! Look at this fool! And he still wanted me to. Where are you, stupid crocodile!

He saw a crocodile, failed his cunning. So he thinks: "What if I crawled out and pretend to be dead?" So he did. Released to the bank and pretended to be dead: the mouth opened wide, wide and not breathing.

He saw the crocodile and the rabbit jumped to it:

• Yes you, brother, I think, really okolel. But the crocodile did not stir. He jumped a rabbit in the jaws of a crocodile, was feeling the sharp crocodile teeth and talk to himself: "This is what I will do a tooth other than a knife, and from this - a knife for my wife."

Hare reasoned, argued, and the crocodile - again! - And shut the mouth. Teeth so terribly clicked that rabbit with fright just jumped in the crocodile's belly. In his belly, he recovered a little, looked around and started shouting:

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• Oh-ho-ho! Yes there great! I just teeth itch at the sight of these magnificent guts! Now they polakomlyus ... - I banged on the walls of the legs Crocodile stomach.

Crocodile twist in pain, he begged:

• Do not destroy me, brother hare, I'll never touch you.

 

• Well, - said the hare conciliatory - if you do so plaintively ask, I'm ready to forgive you and leave your guts alone.

He opened the crocodile as widely as possible its terrible mouth, jumped a rabbit and ran away into the woods.

He ran around in the woods, ran around and saw a great big stump. Jumped on him, sat down and stuck: the sun melted the tar on the stump, and the hare is firmly stuck to it.

At this time, the pond, near which stood a tree stump, went elephant.

• Hey, you! - Shouted him hare. - Do not you dare drink the water from my pond! I was raised to protect this pond myself god Indra!

Startled elephant ran to her mother elephant and told him everything. She is angry mother elephant, went along with his son to the pond, saw a rabbit and asked:

• Hey, hare, why you did not give my son something to drink?

• And you do not give drink - stubborn rabbit. - This pond instructed me to protect myself Indra! Even more oserchala elephant, grabbed the hare trunk, cut off from the stump and threw it away. A hare just what I had.

Somehow came across a rabbit on a bed of cucumbers. So he got into the habit drop in here so have a snack with fresh cucumbers.Noticed this old man and a trap set in the garden. He came at night for a rabbit and cucumber caught in a trap. Frightened: Grandfather something is about to be coming. Suddenly sees past it is important to jump tremendous toad. Hare and asks:

• What is it for you, sister toad, the whole skin in warts? I am your sickness I once cured, just help me get out of the trap.

Glad toad. Long time she wanted to get rid of the ugly warts. She began to help the hare. He climbed out of a rabbit trap and laughs:

• Oh, and silly, a toad! Your warts you got from your ancestors. Their no doctor not will bring. - And ran away.

She is angry toad, chased after a rabbit, but what got him!

Grandfather came to the garden, sees a hare again navedyvalsja: cucumbers eaten trap broke - and vanish into thin air.

• Well, OK, - said his grandfather, - this time I did not get to taste zaychatinki. Oh, wait, hare!

He made his grandfather a new trap, stronger than the first, and returned home. Night the hare felt like fresh cucumbers. He ran to the garden, about the trap and forgot to think. And nothing forgotten!

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Trap - again! - And shut. Frightened rabbit, does not know how to get out.

I saw a toad, which caught the hare again, and was glad: thou shalt not deceive the people of the forest. Rabbit jumps around and shouts:

• Well, the hare, how many times you lied to me! Now you can not escape grandfather boiler! And no you liar, does not help!

Evil hare took, but he has not filed the form, humbly bowed his head and said the toad.

 

 

• And it's true, sister toad. The last time I deceived you. But that's because I do not know how to treat you. But now propose a sure thing. I've got in mind a beauty, I can promise in marriage of your son. Do not worry, I have already spoken with the parents.

They agree to give my daughter for your son. Help me get out of the trap.

Hearing this toad, believed it and was happy - never had them in the old beauties, but here such an opportunity!

• Look, - said the toad, - do not start just to deceive me.

• What! I head for my words I promise. Temples in the country is full of beautiful girls. If I cheat, you do then you can go there and find the perfect bride for his son. Nowadays the bride's cheap. Not for nothing says: eleven bride all eyes have overlooked, the groom ozhidayuchi.

Became toad hare help. Got a rabbit from the trap, ran away and cried:

• Lol! Who is your warty son give beauty for a wife? I fooled you again!

Angry toad. Still, remember that there are many brides Temples. So she went in search of the country Temples. Who would not ask where she was in such a hurry, toad says:

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• I hasten to the country churches in the bride for my son.

Jumped first toad on the ground, then floated on water. There she was fish and ate it.

In the meantime, got a rabbit in the reeds, lay down to rest, and ran into him a tiger. He saw the tiger and the hare cried in a hoarse voice

 

• Oh! I ate five elephants and still not fed. And then these bitter eggplant, osipnesh from them completely. We ought to clean the liver of a tiger's throat.

Tiger heard such words, and scared to death. Ran it to the monkey:

• You know, sister, monkey, in our woods turned up some terrible beast. I'm going and I hear him shouting: "I ate five elephants and not satisfied, swallowed the bitter eggplant and hoarse. We ought to clean the liver of a tiger's throat." But what if this monster will find me?

• What is he like in appearance, this animal? - Asked the monkey.

• Itself, small, with my paw, ears, a long-very long, the tail short.

• Well, brother Tiger, you have nothing to fear. It's a rabbit, he is well-known braggart.

• No, - said the tiger - can not be. Because I've seen next to the monster pieces of elephant tusks.

• Since you do not believe, brother tiger, we go together. So make sure I was right.

• No, I will not go, I'm afraid. This monster wants to eat my liver, but not yours. And if it is for us the chase, you're on the tree was buried, and where I go?

• Well coward, are you, brother tiger! - Angry monkey. - If you do not believe, Grab vines and tie us together, then I'm from you can not escape.

Tiger tore liane, contacted them and cautiously headed in the thicket, where resting rabbit. Caught sight of a hare, hid behind a home of termites, leaned over him and shouted loudly and hoarsely:

 

• Oh, you filthy ape! Oh how many years have passed, and you are carrying all the debt is not! Do you think that I will accept payment in this old skinny tiger!

Decided tiger, a monkey that wants to give it hare to be eaten on account of old debt, sprang away and ran off without looking back.Monkey with a total blunder hit the tree and okolela.

He escaped and fled to the tiger dead monkey on his back, finally dared to look back and saw a grinning jaws of a monkey and thought she was over him laughing. Offended tiger, tore vines, threw a monkey, and disappeared in the remote often.

Whole day long the hare in a thicket of reeds and in the evening hungry. He ran on the field where the farmer had just landed rice seedlings, ate and again disappeared into the woods. In the morning a peasant came to look at the field and sees someone eat sprouts. He understood that here rabbit feasting. Looked, where traces of lead, and set a trap there.

The following night the rabbit again went to graze on the rice field and, of course, caught. The heart of a rabbit went into my legs, as he heard the steps of the peasant. I pretended to be dead hare.

Suitable farmer to trap and sees her lying lifeless in the rabbit. He was glad farmer pulled a rabbit and laid it on the ground, and he was re-trapped cock. Hare could feel the freedom, leapt to his feet but rather in the bushes!

• Oh, you bounder! - Cried the peasant. - Clever you met me. Oh, wait! Today the same night you get into my trap!

And precisely. Night came, hungry rabbit, went to the rice field, and immediately fell into the trap. Nothing he could think of. So it sat all night dull-preunyly, death waited. Came in the morning a peasant sees, trapped in the same rabbit sitting. He was glad farmer, pulled a rabbit out of the trap and said:

• Well, a deceiver, I'd like to know how you escape this time the boiler, although you are well known trickster!

He brought home a rabbit farmer and covered its vertices. This morning the peasant's great luck. He not only got the hare, but still caught a big fish.

He left for the peasant economy, and my wife ordered the rice to cook. Hare, meanwhile managed to negotiate with the fish.

• How come after you - he taught fish - pretend to be dead than alive. Stir, stir and turn belly up. Throw you into the water, so you come alive, and you do not move at first, then pretended that you want to slip away. They take the master vertices, which I covered, wantcatch you. But he grabbed the fish-trap, dive deeper and escape.

It happened, as the hare. When the rice was ready, the farmer took the gills of fish and carried to the pond gut. He saw the fish at all sleepy. He dunked it in water. Fish rvanet and jumped out of the hands, but the depth is not left on the surface of the swim was like a hare taught her. Farmer catches her, catches, and can not catch all the fish from the hands of time slips.

He shouted to his wife that she brought more vertices. Wife ran out to the cry of her husband, grabbed the fish-trap and ran to the pond.I saw a fish that a woman has the vertices, instantly dived and was seen no more.

Hare, of course, immediately fled're Angry husband and wife. They climbed on the water, climbing, frozen so that the teeth were gone, but the fish still being caught.They returned home, remembered the hare, and his trail and long flown.