i, pii, O flute that I love, Pii, pii, rabbits are but little boys.
Pii, pii, he would have burned me if he could; Pii, pii, but I burned
him, and he crackled finely.

When he got tired of going through the world singing this the little
hare went back to his friends and entered the service of Big Lion. One
day he said to his master, 'Grandfather, shall I show you a splendid way
to kill game?'

'What is it?' asked Big Lion.

'We must dig a ditch, and then you must lie in it and pretend to be
dead.'

Big Lion did as he was told, and when he had lain down the little hare
got up on a wall blew a trumpet and shouted--

Pii, pii, all you animals come and see, Big Lion is dead, and now peace
will be.

Directly they heard this they all came running. The little hare received
them and said, 'Pass on, this way to the lion.' So they all entered into
the Animal Kingdom. Last of all came the monkey with her baby on her
back. She approached the ditch, and took a blade of grass and tickled
Big Lion's nose, and his nostrils moved in spite of his efforts to keep
them still. Then the monkey cried, 'Come, my baby, climb on my back and
let us go. What sort of a dead body is it that can still feel when it
is tickled?' And she and her baby went away in a fright. Then the
little hare said to the other beasts, 'Now, shut the gate of the Animal
Kingdom.' And it was shut, and great stones were rolled against it. When
everything was tight closed the little hare turned to Big Lion and said
'Now!' and Big Lion bounded out of the ditch and tore the other animals
in pieces.

But Big Lion kept all the choice bits for himself, and only gave away
the little scraps that he did not care about eating; and the little hare
grew very angry, and determined to have his revenge. He had long ago
found out that Big Lion was very easily taken in; so he laid his plans
accordingly. He said to him, as if the idea had just come into his head,
'Grandfather, let us build a hut,' and Big Lion consented. And when they
had driven the stakes into the ground, and had made the walls of the
hut, the little hare told Big Lion to climb upon the top while he stayed
inside. When he was ready he called out, 'Now, grandfather, begin,'
and Big Lion passed his rod through the reeds with which the roofs are
always covered in that country. The little hare took it and cried, 'Now
it is my turn to pierce them,' and as he spoke he passed the rod back
through the reeds and gave Big L