"Like a Duck in a Noose"

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[Julliardsux]

Let's figure out this Duck in a Noose thing

[Julliardsux]

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The Rabit, the Otter, and Duck Hunting.

As told by The Warrior based on James Mooney

The Rabbit was known far and wide for his boastful nature. To hear him tell it, he could do what anyone else could do. He was so good at this that he even was able to convince the Otter that he could catch and eat fish just as
good as him.

Now time went by, and the Otter meet the Rabbit again. Now it just so happen that the Otter was still a bit miffed about the fish. He had a plan to expose the Rabbit. The Otter looked at the Rabbit, and said to him. "You know, I sometimes eat Duck too!" So off to the river they went and
found seven ducks, which they every so quietly were able to sneak up on. "You go first", cried the Rabbit, to which the Otter quickly slid into the water. He quickly was able to drag a duck under and return to the Rabbit unseen.

Now the Rabbit had not just been standing around watching. While the Otter was otherwise occupied, he had been striping bark from near by sapling and making himself a noose. He looked at the Otter when he returned and said,
"OK, that is great, watch me!", and off he took into the water. Now the Rabbit did not have anywhere near the ability in water that the Otter had. And it was a struggle for him to reach the ducks un-noticed, but he managed
to do so and came up among the remaining six ducks. He quickly fastened his noose around the neck of the closest duck. Startled, the duck began to struggle to get away and finally took of on his wings and dragged the Rabbit out of the water after him. Now it was the Rabbits turn to be startled. And boy was he. He held on to the noose and was taken high into the air. Higher and higher he went. All of a sudden, he lost his grip on the noose and down he fell into the middle of a old hollow Sycamore tree with out a
hole in the bottom to get out.

Now the Rabbit was in a fix. He stayed in there so long that he had to start eating his own fur, as rabbits still do to this day when the are starved. Then one day, he heard some children playing and he began to sing in a weak little voice. The song he sang went like this. "Cut a hole and see me, I am the prettiest thing you ever did see"

Soon the children had returned with on of the fathers who cut a who so that the Rabbit could get out. He told them to stand back and see, and out he ran and took his leave.

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[CharlotteVRWC]

I HOPE IT ISN'T AL QUEDA CODE WORD'S FOR MORE ATTACKS.

[LurkerNoMore!]

Oh, man. Is this up your alley, or what?

[Julliardsux]

That was my first thought as well, friend.

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Try to figure it out? The sick bastard is shooting people for the fun of it...hes a nut case

[Senator Pardek]

[WxMan2000]

My wife and I said the same thing..at the same time..

Hang on..the ride gets wilder and wilder...

[Grani]

Sorry, can't help, I don't speak Ebonics.

[Sir Gawain]

[RummyChick]

Wow, I had never heard thisphrase before...this story makes more sense than the drivel they are spouting on CNN.

[Julliardsux]

This was at www.ilhawaii.net/~stony/1097lore.html

The Rabbit Goes Duck Hunting

The Rabbit was so boastful that he would claim to do what- ever he saw anyone else do, and so tricky that he could usually make the other animals believe it all. Once he pretended that he could swim in the water and eat fish just as the Otter did, and when the others told him to prove it he fixed up a plan so that the Otter himself was deceived.

Soon afterward they met again and the Otter said, "I eat ducks sometimes." Said the Rabbit, "Well, I eat ducks too." The Otter challenged him to try it; so they went up along the river until they saw several ducks in the water and managed to get near without being seen. The Rabbit told the Otter to go first. The Otter never hesitated, but dived from the bank and swam under water until he reached the ducks, when he pulled one down without being noticed by the others, and came back in the same way.

While the Otter had been under the water the Rabbit had peeled some bark from a sapling and made himself a noose. "Now," he said, "Just watch me;" and he dived in and swam a little way under the water until he was nearly choking and had to come up to the top to breathe. He went under again and came up again a little nearer to the ducks. He took another breath and dived under, and this time he came up among the ducks and threw the noose over the head of one and caught it. The duck struggled hard and finally spread its wings and flew up from the water with the Rabbit hanging on to the noose.

It flew on and on until at last the Rabbit could not hold on any longer, but had to let go and drop. As it happened, he fell into a tall, hollow sycamore stump without any hole at the bottom to get out from and there he stayed until he was so hungry that he had to eat his own fur, as the rabbit does ever since when he is starving. After several days, when he was very weak with hunger, he heard children playing outside around the trees. He began to sing:

Cut a door and look at me;
I'm the prettiest thing you ever did see.

The children ran home and told their father, who came and began to cut a hole in the tree. As he chopped away the Rabbit inside kept singing, "Cut it larger, so you can see me better; I"m so pretty." They made the hole larger, and then the Rabbit told them to stand back so that they could take a good look as he came out. They stood away back, and the Rabbit watched his chance and jumped out and got away.

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As always, I ask everyone to make prayers for World Peace and Kindness for all Living things on our Mother, The Earth. I ask all Pipe Carriers to make smoke with me in prayer also for Leonard Pletier and others like him who have been imprisoned unjustly. And here is the story of how I got my Pipe

News about Leonard Peltier case and to view his art work....click here for details!!!

Monthly Lore For 1997

December ++ The Deluge (Cherokee)
November ++ How The Rabbit Stole The Otter's Coat (Cherokee)
October ++ The Rabbit Goes Duck Hunting (Cherokee)
September ++ What The Stars Are Like (Cherokee)
August ++ The Moon And The Thunders (Cherokee)
July ++ The Journey To The Sunrise (Cherokee)
June ++ How They Brought Back The Tobacco + a second version (Cherokee)
May ++ The Origin Of The Pleiades And The Pine (Cherokee)
April ++ A NEW BOW FOR TANI (Cherokee)
March ++ ATAGAHI-THE SECRET LAKE (Cherokee)
Febuary ++ Kanati the Hunter and the Cave of Animals (Cherokee)
January ++ BEAR'S RACE WITH TURTLE (Seneca)

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[martin_fierro]

"AFLAC!"

[jwfiv]

Thinking the same thing, and after reading the little fable above (ain't some Freepers just flippin' amazing?), I'm still thinking that same thing.

Also thinking that's a little bit of bragging, too...he's awfully proud of himself.

[buffyt]

WHAT?????
I read it three times and I don't get it. Oh well, it is late....

[garbanzo]

Same thought here...I do hope everyone in law enforcement handling this case knows what they're doing.

[Julliardsux]

I don't get it, either, but obviously it is extremely important to the snoop snippity sniper

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

this story makes more sense than the drivel they are spouting on CNN.

Hey, its a lot better that FOX, Van G is the WORST! id rather listen to a hundred fingernails being scratched over a chalkboard that listen to her and her stop---pause---mutter--stop---pause---say something idiotic---stop---pause dribble that spews out of her ugly face.

Also, Moose was talking to the sniper again. I wouldnt be suprised if he pops some poor soul off tomorrow morning just to throw into the confusion

[cyberaxe]

.....i jes wish.....

.....sumbody would cook dis sniper's duck.....

.....(i gotta idea what to do to the duck).....

[CheneyChick]

Fig. 149q - A Man Throwing a Duck Noose

Arctic String Figure Project

[Julliardsux]

Check this out

The following site contains the words sniper, duck and noose: (I cannot remember how to post link)

http://www.guardroom.com/archives/2002_10.html