nd Hindus, and, with a change of gender between Sun and Moon, the
same story occurs among other tribes in the following form:--

"There was a girl at a party, and some one told his love for her by
shaking her shoulders, after the manner of the country. She could not see
who it was in the dark hut, so she smeared her hands with soot, and when
he came back she blackened his cheek with her hand. When a light was
brought she saw that it was her brother and fled. He ran after her,
followed her, and as she came to the end of the earth, he sprang out into
the sky. Then she became the sun, and he the moon, and this is why the
moon is always chasing the sun through the heavens, and why the moon is
sometimes dark as he turns his blackened cheek towards the earth."(39)

We now turn to the South, and here, among the lowest of the low, among the
Hottentots, who are despised even by their black neighbors, the Zulus, we
find the following gem of a fable, beaming with mingled rays of religion
and philosophy:--

"The Moon, it is said, sent once an insect to men, saying, 'Go thou to
men, and tell them, As I die, and dying live, so ye shall also die, and
dying live.' The insect started with the message, but whilst on his way
was overtaken by the hare, who asked: 'On what errand art thou bound?' The
insect answered, 'I am sent by the Moon to men, to tell them that as she
dies and dying lives, they also shall die and dying live.' The hare said,
'As thou art an awkward runner, let me go' (to take the message). With
these words he ran off, and when he reached men, he said, 'I am sent by
the Moon to tell you, As I die, and dying perish, in the same manner ye
also shall die and come wholly to an end.' Then the hare returned to the
Moon, and told her what he had said to men. The Moon reproached him
angrily, saying, 'Darest thou tell the people a thing which I have not
said?' With these words she took up a piece of wood, and struck him on the
nose. Since that day the hare's nose is slit."

Of this story, too, there are various versions and in one of them the end
is as follows:--

"The hare, having returned to the Moon, was questioned as to the message
delivered, and the Moon, having heard the true state of the case, became
so enraged with him that she took up a hatchet to split his head; falling
short, however, of that, the hatchet fell upon the upper lip of the hare,
and cut it severely. Hence it is that we see the 'hare-lip.' The hare,
bein