<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_157" id="Page_157">[Pg 157]</SPAN></span></p>
<h2>HOW RABBIT LOST HIS FAT</h2>
<p class="subtitle">Omaha</p>
<p><span class="dropcap">A</span>t first all the four-footed animals were fat. The
one who made them wished to know if they
looked well so fat. So he called all the four-footed
animals together. He seized by the head each
one who did not look handsome with the fat, and
scraped it all off.</p>
<p>At length someone took Rabbit to him.</p>
<p>“Fat makes me handsome,” said Rabbit “I will
be the one.”</p>
<p>“Let me see! Come here!” said the one who made
the animals. Then he made Rabbit fat. Then he
looked at him. “Fat makes you ugly beyond measure.”</p>
<p>So he seized Rabbit by the head and scraped off the
fat from the base of his neck. But he pulled suddenly
at the flesh in the space between the shoulders. Therefore,
ever since then Rabbit has had a hollow space
between his shoulders, and only in that place is there
a piece of fat.</p>
<p>At length the person who made the animals saw that
Raccoon was the only person who looked well when
fat. So he made the whole body of Raccoon fat.</p>
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