A hare once went to a woman who had a small child, and said: “I want to be engaged as nurse.” The woman had nobody to help her in her household duties, so agreed to engage the hare, and gave it her child to look after, whilst she went about her other work.

The next day the woman's husband slaughtered a goat, and his wife took the meat in order to cook it. Having put the meat in a cooking- pot on the fire, she went out, leaving the hare in charge of the baby. As the baby slept, the hare soon became tired of sitting still, so he went to the cooking-pot and tasted the meat. Finding it very good he took it all and ate it. He then slept for a short while, and when he awoke he said to himself: “What will the good woman say when she finds her meat gone?”. He was uncertain what to do for some time, but at last he decided to put the baby into the pot in the place of the meat. He took a knife and cut the baby into small pieces, as he had seen done with the goat, and dropped the pieces in the cooking pot. He then searched for a beetle, which he put into the mortar for crushing grain, and covered it with the goat's hide.

The woman returned home shortly afterwards, and, hearing the beetle buzzing in the mortar, called to the hare to take up the child, as it was crying. The hare took the cover off the mortar and went away. In due course the husband returned home, and was given his meat to eat, after which the wife also ate. The woman then looked for the hare and the baby, but found they were gone, and they have not been seen since.