The Hare and the Elephant's Hollow Tree

A great famine was in the land. The Hare knew that the Elephant had a secret store of food inside a giant, hollow baobab tree. He went to the Elephant and said, "Great Elephant, I see you are thin and hungry like the rest of us." "I am," said the Elephant. "It is a terrible time." The Hare replied, "I have heard a prophecy that if the strongest animal and the weakest animal enter a hollow tree and shout the name of the food they desire most, it will appear." The Elephant, desperate, agreed to try. They found the hollow baobab. "You are the strongest, you must go in first," said the Hare. The Elephant squeezed inside. "Now, shout for 'honey'!" the Hare yelled from outside. As the Elephant shouted, the Hare quickly sealed the entrance to the hollow tree with a huge boulder he had positioned earlier. The Elephant was trapped inside with his own secret store of food, but he could not get out. The Hare had tricked the hoarder into becoming a prisoner of his own hoard.