The rabbit is being a jerk again, this time boasting on himself and the abilities he has. He lies and deceives all about things he sees others doing. This time, he lies and says that he can eat fish just like the otters. The otters say, well I can eat ducks too and to this the rabbit says he can also eat ducks. The otter challenges the rabbit to prove it, and accepting the challenge they go to a river where some ducks are. The otter effortlessly gets a duck, and while he is hunting the rabbit makes a noose to catch a duck (basically cheating). The rabbit goes to catch a duck, and the duck flies away carrying the rabbit until he cant hold on any longer and falls. He falls into a hole with no way out. Several days go, and he hears children playing outside. He sings a song to attract them to him, and they bring their father to cut a hole in the tree. Eventually the hole is big enough that the rabbit can run through and escape the people - free again to terrorize the animal community.
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Speaking of bunnies, there was a children's book I read in school about a family that got a bunny and the cat didn't trust it - finding that it was sucking the juice from all the vegetables. He conspired with the dog, and I don't remember all that happens, but at the end they find the bunny is harmless and just a new friend with a weird diet.
Afterthoughts.
It seems for the Cherokee that the rabbit is their trickster animal, a spot normally reserved for a fox or coyote. I like the idea of changing he challenge and animals, where a platypus challenges a a crocodile to an arm wrestling contest and wins by hiding a needle in his hand - which becomes his poisonous spike that males have and he gets thrown across the river or something. I could also join the two stories I read this week, where the possum walks by the rabbit trapped and doesn't help him so the rabbit has to rely on tricking the humans to help.
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