Japanese Fairy Tale Series 01 #05- Kachi Kachi Mountain

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MOOTOW+NCE upon a time there wasan old farmer who cultivated

a field in the mountains. One dayhis old wife came and broughthim his dinner; but a badger stoleand eat it. This made the old


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man angry and at last he took thebadger alive, carried it home withhim, and hung it to a rafter bythe feet. Then he said to hiswife, "Let us have this badger forsoup. Have it well cooked andwait till I come back." Then hewent again to the field. His wifewas pounding barley in a mortarand singing. In distress the bad-

ger said, "If you will only sparemy life I will pound the barleyfor you." As it was indeed in a


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sad plight she untied the cordand let it down. Then rightaway the badger sprang at theold woman and killed her, andmade her into soup.


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Then he assumed hershape and sat waiting,when the old man re-turned from the field.When he was about to


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partake of the soup, the badgerassumed his original form, andcried out, "You wife-eating oldman you! Did not you see thebones under the floor?" Laughing


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derisively it escaped out of doorsand disappeared. The old manthrew down his chop-sticks andcried long and bitterly. Now inthe same mountain there lived anold rabbit. Hearing the voice of


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the old man crying,he came and triedto comfort him, andsaid he would him-self avenge the death of the oldwoman. " First, " he said, "parchme some beans." And the oldman parched them. The rab-bit put the parched beans in apouch and said, "Now to themountain again;" and away hewent. The badger was attractedby the smell, and came and said;


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f"Give me about a handful of thosebeans." This was what the rab-bit was

expecting. So he said;"I will if you will carry a bundleof dry-grass for me over to yonmountain." "I will do as yousay without fail," replied the bad-

ger, "only first give me the beans."He begged importunately, but therabbit said; "Yes, after you havecarried the load of dry-grass."He then put on his back a great


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pile of dried-grass and sent thebadger on before, while he tookout his flint and struck out aspark, and set the bundle on fire.


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The badger alarmed at the noiseasked, "what is that?" The rabbitreplied; "That is KacU-KacUMountain."* Soon the fire began tokindle and spread in the dried-grass* The badger,


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again asked, "what is thatf Therabbit replied, "That is Bo-Bo

Mountain,"* By this time the firehad spread to the badger's backand burnt it badly. Crying out inpain, he rolled over and shook offhis load and ran away out of sight.The rabbit next mixed ^ome

sauce and red-pepper and made at

sticking plaster, put on a hat andset out to sell it as a cure forblisters and burns. The badgerwas then lying helpless with his


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back all raw and sore. That mustbe a good medicine, he thought,when he heard of it. So he gotsome applied to his back. Butthere is no language to tell howhe smarted when the red-peppersticking plaster was applied to hissore skin. He just rolled over andover and howled long and bitterly.Now after about twenty days thebadger's sore was healed. Therabbit was then making a boat,and the badger seeing it asked


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awhat are you going to do withthis boat? " The rabbit replied, Iintend to catch fish," thus deceiving.The badger felt envious, but wasdull Jifflte in that kind of work.


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"I too will make a boat of clay,"he said. So having made a clayboat he rowed out to sea along

with the rabbit. Then thebadger's boat began to sink,

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and when it was sinking, therabbit brandished aloft his oar

and struck the badger dead,thus avenging the

old man's wife.

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