We often gathered at grandmother's house to listen to her stories. We liked to sit around the fire, under the stars on a cow skin. Grandmother began her last story for the night, "Hare and Elephant were neighbours and friends." Hare liked mushrooms, but he was too lazy to farm. So he stole Elephant's mushrooms. Elephant had planted bananas and pumpkins that year. So there were no mushrooms for Hare. Hare went without food for many days. Then he decided to steal Elephant's bananas. Elephant noticed that someone was stealing his bananas. He went to Hare and said, "Someone is stealing from me." Hare asked, "Who is the thief?" Elephant began to sing, "I will catch the thief! Aaah! I will catch the thief! Ooo!" Hare felt nervous. Elephant asked Monkey to watch his farm. But Hare did not steal that day or that night. Nor the next day or night. Monkey became tired of watching. The following day, Hare went to Elephant's farm to steal again. When Elephant came to check on his crops, Hare hid amongst the pumpkin leaves.

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