Hyena, Hare

and their basins

Ursula Nafula
Salim Kasamba

English
 Long time ago, Hyena and Hare were
great friends. They were both poor but
Hare owned a donkey. He also had a
very small basin, which he used to feed
the donkey.

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 One hot afternoon, Hare decided to
give water to his donkey.

However, Hare could not fetch water

from the well with his small basin. So
he decided to borrow a bigger basin
from Hyena. Hyena gave Hare his
basin because of their friendship.

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 After getting water and giving it to the
donkey, Hare went home with Hyena's
basin.

Two weeks later, Hyena wanted to

wash clothes but Hare still had his
basin. Hyena left the clothes and went
to Hare's house for his basin.

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 Hare gave Hyena his large basin. He
also gave Hyena a small basin.

Hare said, "Your basin gave birth to a

young one and since we are friends, I
am giving you the two of them." Hyena
was happy and accepted the two
basins.

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 A few days later, Hare wanted to water
his donkey and again he went to
Hyena for help. Hyena thought, "Since
I will get an extra basin, I will give him
my basin straight away!"

Hare took Hyena's big basin and went

to water his donkey. Afterwards he
took Hyena's basin home with him.

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 Hyena waited to collect his basin from
Hare. He wanted to give it time to give
birth to a young one!

When Hyena went to Hare's home to

collect his basin, Hare said, "Hyena,
my friend, I was just about to come to
deliver the bad news. Your basin died
two days ago. You know that all things
that live, also die!"

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 Hyena could not believe this news. He
said, "I must call bigger animals to
judge the case."

So Hyena called the bigger animals for

a meeting. Elephants, buffalos, hippos
and giraffes arrived at Hare's home to
judge the case.

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 Hare was asked to explain what
happened. He said, "The first time I
borrowed Hyena's basin, it gave birth
to a young one and I gave him the
two. Unfortunately, the second time I
borrowed Hyena's basin, it died before
giving birth. Whatever has life also
dies."

All the animals agreed with Hare's

explanation. Hyena lost his basin to
Hare.

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Hyena, Hare and their basins

Author - Charles Katiwa Kiema
Translation - Ursula Nafula
Illustr
Illustration
ation - Salim Kasamba
Language - English
Le
Level
vel - Longer paragraphs
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