Atondido Stories
The Rabbit and The Coyote
This is a story of Uncle Rabbit and the coyote. The rabbit came to
a big rock, and there he deceived the coyote. He was leaning on
the rock when the coyote came by.
"What are you doing, brother?" the coyote asked the rabbit.
"Come here quickly, brother, the sky is falling down on top
of us. Lean against the rock and hold it up while I go for a stick.
We'll prop it up with that," said the rabbit to the coyote.
"All right," said the coyote and began holding it up with all
his might. Since the coyote was so stupid, he did exactly what
the rabbit told him to. The rabbit had said that he was going to
get a stick, but he went and left the coyote holding up the rock.
When the rabbit didn't return the coyote shouted:
"Come back, brother! The weight of the rock has made me
tired."
The rabbit still didn't come back.
"No matter, I'm going to leave even though the sky may fall
down on top of us," said the coyote. But when he ran away he
fell into a ravine. The rabbit never came back to the rock and the
coyote was lost.
Later the rabbit came to a pond and saw the reflection of the
moon in there. As the rabbit was very tricky, he was always de-
ceiving the coyote. The dumb coyote always followed him and
didn't know that the rabbit was deceiving him. The coyote came
to the pond where the rabbit was. When he saw the coyote com-
ing he began to drink the water from the pond.
"What are you doing, brother? The coyote asked the rabbit:
"Look, brother, there's a lot of food down there," answered the
rabbit.
"What kind of food?"
"Look," the rabbit told the coyote.
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