Then the Mouse-deer says, "On account of it, give up your friendship
with the Hare." To that the Parrot did not consent.
After that, the Mouse-deer, having gone near the Hare, said, "Friend,
we having been in the midst of this forest, except that there is
convenience through the water, through the food there is none. Because
of it, let us go into the midst of the villages."
The Hare also being pleased at this, and having said, "Ha; let us
go," the two together went into the midst of the villages. Having
gone there, the two crept into a bush.
A man saw that this Hare and Mouse-deer crept into the bush. Having
seen it, the man spoke to yet [other] men, and having brought nets
they fixed them. When they had thus fixed them the Hare bounded away;
the Mouse-deer was caught.
The Hare having bounded away from there, went to the spot where it
formerly stayed at first. After that, it met with the Parrot. Then
the Parrot asked the Hare, [2] "Where, friend, is the Mouse-deer?"
The Hare said, "Friend, men seized the one who tried to break the
friendship of us two."
Then the Parrot says, "Friend, through his going to break our
friendship that we [have had] for a long time, danger befel that very
one." Having said it, the friendship of the two was in the very same
manner [as before],
Anun nahanda yanakota tamumma nahinawa.
While they are going to kill others they die themselves.
North-western Province.