77. Wise rabbit

Because he couldn’t find any thing to eat in forest a rabbit went to field to steal sweet potatoes. Unfortunately, the owner was in a hut near there and sprinted to catch him. Wise rabbit, immediately, pretended that he was dead. The owner moved him few times but the rabbit didn’t move and he believed that the rabbit had been dead. He grabbed rabbit’s ears and carried to his home. As he arrived to a stall he laid the rabbit under a tree and observed but the rabbit didn’t run. Therefore, he was comfortable to come in and drank. But when he had come in the stall the rabbit woke up and ran away.

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Though the rabbit had escaped but he had not found any thing to eat for days. So hungry he risked to come to the field again. Unlucky, he was caught again. The owner had known that was a wise rabbit so that time he tied the rabbit carefully and bring to his home. He asked his wife:
“Cage him. We will slaughter him on father's death anniversary”.
Then the rabbit was caged in a cage which was used to catch fish. The cage was laid a heavy rock on it that made the rabbit couldn’t help himself to escape. Thought that he would lose his life at there then he saw a large fish in a pot near that and caught an idea.
“My friend, fish, don’t you know that you will lose your life in tomorrow morning? They will slaughter you for a feast. Hurry up! Wave and break the pot to escape”, said the rabbit.
The fish tried his best to wave and made the pot broken. He crept as fast as he could toward a pond nearly. The rabbit waited for the fish went near the pond shore he screamed to hint people to catch the fish. The owner, his wife and his son were confused as they saw the fish nearly escaped. The son sprinted to grab the cage which was prisoning the rabbit to catch the fish. Immediate the rabbit caught his chance to escape he ran toward the forest without a rest till he met a river. The river stopped him and he had no choice but went cross the river. Confused and still didn’t know what should to do but he was very lucky as he saw a crocodile lying on the shore. The rabbit called loudly: “Brother, bring me cross the river, please. I promise that I will ask my sister to be your wife. My sister is very beautifull”.
The crocodile was pleasant with his offer and agreed. He carried the rabbit on his back cross the river. As they nearly came to the other shore the rabbit jumped up to the shore. He didn’t forget to provoke the crocodile:
“Thank you, crocodile but my sister will not marry with you”. Then he ran away left the crocodile stayed with his anger.
Felt angry but the crocodile couldn’t chase after the rabbit so he promised with himself that he would revenge whenever he had chance. One day, the rabbit felt thirsty he approached the river to drink and the crocodile saw that. The crocodile wore grasses on his head and approached to where the rabbit was. The rabbit thought that was a spot so he jumped up. Therefore, he was caught. The crocodile kept him in his mouth. He made groaned but the rabbit laughed.
“Hum, hum, hum, what are you doing? frightening a kid. If you want to frighten me you have to do this", said the rabbit then yelled"aha! aha! ahaha!...".
The crocodile thought that was true so he opened his mouth to say aha but when he just opened mouth the rabbit jumped up ground at one. He stayed on ground to have long laugh then he made his way toward forest
The end.🎭🎭🎭
"Translated by Hung Nguyen"
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