Just as the snake was tensing up, before it could jump, the rabbit plunged his claws into its eyes. Near the snake, the rabbit pretended to be asleep. He hit the lizard at the base of the tail and left him dead.
The rabbit invited the lizard to play ball. He seized the knife and at the first blow fell with his throat cut. He examined the object that made one laugh, and he scratched his head. After much hitting and chuckling, he left the knife on the ground and hopped away. Taking a knife, the rabbit began striking his own neck with the blunt side of it. He stopped under a tree in which a monkey was eating. Then the rabbit killed him with one blow, stripped him, and went on his way into the woods of the Zapotec country. I’ll tie you to the trunk by the neck and paws, and the hurricane won’t carry you off.” The grateful tiger let himself be tied. “We’ll look for a tree with a very strong trunk. “I can think of only one way to save you,” said the rabbit. But what’ll you do? The hurricane won’t spare you.” A tear rolled down between the tiger’s mustaches. The tiger wanted to know it, and the rabbit announced an impending hurricane.
“God has let me into a secret,” he said confidentially. God promised to increase his size if he would bring him the skins of a tiger, of a monkey, of a lizard, and of a snake.
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