Now after the days of mourning were at an end , the wife was sleeping at her husband 's side , and in her sleep she dreamed that she was once more in her father 's house , and when she woke up it was no dream . And the man dreamed that he was on the dust-heap , scratching . And when he woke , behold ! that also was no dream , but the truth . -LRB- Swahili Tales . -RRB- HOW A FISH SWAM IN THE AIR AND A HARE IN THE WATER . Once upon a time an old man and his wife lived together in a little village . They might have been happy if only the old woman had had the sense to hold her tongue at proper times . But anything which might happen indoors , or any bit of news which her husband might bring in when he had been anywhere , had to be told at once to the whole village , and these tales were repeated and altered till it often happened that much mischief was made , and the old man 's back paid for it . One day , he drove to the forest . When he reached the edge of it he got out of his cart and walked beside it . Suddenly he stepped on such a soft spot that his foot sank in the earth . ` What can this be ? ' thought he . ` I 'll dig a bit and see . ' So he dug and dug , and at last he came on a little pot full of gold and silver . ` Oh , what luck ! Now , if only I knew how I could take this treasure home with me -- but I can never hope to hide it from my wife , and once she knows of it she 'll tell all the world , and then I shall get into trouble . ' He sat down and thought over the matter a long time , and at last he made a plan . He covered up the pot again with earth and twigs , and drove on into the town , where he bought a live pike and a live hare in the market .
Then he drove back to the forest and hung the pike up at the very top of a tree , and tied up the hare in a fishing net and fastened it XXXXX the edge of a little stream , not troubling himself to think how unpleasant such a wet spot was likely to be to the hare .
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