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Bibliography: Eastern Stories and Legends by Marie L. Shedlock
The Hare that Ran Away
In this story, Buddha was born as a lion. Just like he had helped humans now he was to help the animals. However, there was a nervous hare who always asked what was to happen in the earth fall in. One day the hare was by a tree when she heard a slight noise startled by it. The hare was so frightened that it did not realize it was a heavy fruit that fell it was ready to believe anything. the hare said in a frightened tone that the "The Earth is falling in" and started running full speed.
It came across its brother and when asked why she was running she told him "The Earth is falling in". The brother hare told the other hares they all started to run. Soon all the animals large and small were running together frighten because the "The Earth is falling in". When they came across the lion the lion asked them why they were running and they said because "The Earth is falling in"when asked how did they know they each said a different animal told them and like that they all went around until it stopped at the hare. The lion took the hare to the tree and made it realize the sound she heard was that of a heavy fruit that fell so they went back to the rest of the animals to tell them, in fact, the Earth was not falling in.
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