Then one day Ms. Frog got an idea while standing by the river watching some fishermen. Their bodies were not really equipped for catching fish but they were using a worm on a hook to lure the fish into a trap. Their tools caught the fish for them.
“How clever,” thought Ms. Frog.
That is how she got the plan to build a trap. She dug a hole in the ground with the help of some mice and covered it with leaves and twigs. Then she jumped to the nearest farm and lured a stupid hen to the hole with a worm. Now when I saw what she did next I just thought the hunger had made her crazy, but now I know it was a mixture of pride and greed that made her tie the hen to a nearby tree and wait for bigger prey. If I had been her I would simply have tried eating the hen.
It was well into week two now and their tempers and behaviour was getting quite edgy. Of course Ms. Bunny´s nocturnal visits to the vegetable gardens were more frequent than ever and unknown to herself she was eating all the plants around her. She looked healthy and fat but a little tired.
Ms. Fox was also visiting vegetable gardens and while she had laughed at Ms. Bunny´s sleep-eating before, now it irritated her.
“I´m going to give that rabbit a good fright. I´m going to wake her up and show her what´s what,” she whispered bitterly.
She crept over and placed a red paw one the rabbit´s grey shoulder. Ms. Bunny almost choked on a bit of carrot when she opened her eyes and saw the fox grinning at her. Ms. Fox licked her lips. Ms. Bunny pissed on the cabbages.
“Got you,” barked the fox.
Ms. Bunny jumped out of Ms. Fox´s grasp. “Hey wait,” roared Ms. fox. The rabbit ran, the fox ran after her. The chase felt good. Ms. Fox nearly forgot it was her friend Ms. Bunny she was chasing and not some other random small animal. She had to stop herself from going into hunting mode.
They ran and ran and they ran straight into Ms. Frog´s trap.
“Hurray, Yippee!” shouted the frog. She bounded over and looked into the hole.
“But…it´s….YOU TWO!” shouted the disappointed frog.
“It´s not what it looks like,” said the fox while trying to comfort a distraught bunny and convince her she wasn´t dinner.
