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  • They made covenants with the furious lion, (ensuring) that he should incur no loss in this bargain,
  • (That) the daily ration should come to him without trouble, and that he should not need to make a further demand. 995
  • Day by day the one on whom the lot fell would run to the lion as (swiftly as) a cheetah.
  • When this cup (of death) came round to the hare, the hare cried out, “Why, how long (are we to endure this) injustice?”
  • How the beasts of chase blamed the hare for his delay in going to the lion.
  • The company (of beasts) said to him: “All this time we have sacrificed our lives in troth and loyalty.
  • Do not thou seek to give us a bad name, O rebellious one! Lest the lion be aggrieved, go, go! Quick! Quick!”
  • How the hare answered the beasts.
  • “O friends,” said he, “grant me a respite, that by my cunning ye may escape from calamity, 1000
  • That by my cunning your lives may be saved and this (safety) remain as a heritage to your children.”
  • After this manner every prophet in the world used to call the peoples to a place of deliverance,
  • For he had seen from Heaven the way of escape, (though) in (their) sight he was contracted (despicable) like the pupil of the eye.