“Dear huntsman, do but let me live,

Two little ones to thee I’ll give,”

“Dear huntsman, do but let me live, Two little ones to thee I’ll give,”

and sprang instantly into the thicket, and brought two young ones. But the little creatures played so merrily, and were so pretty, that the huntsmen could not find it in their hearts to kill them. They therefore kept them with them, and the little hares followed on foot. Soon after this, a fox crept past; they were just going to shoot it, but the fox cried,

“Dear hunstman, do but let me live,

Two little ones I’ll also give.”