Rabbit Eats the Watermleon

Old Lady planted watermelons and tended them carefully. The watermelons grew and grew, and one melon was clearly the biggest and best of all.

Rabbit watched the watermelons growing, and he noticed the biggest, best watermelon. He drilled a hole in the top and came each night to scoop out the fruit from inside. Then, when he had eaten all the fruit, he filled it up with dirt.

Old Lady was delighted by how heavy the watermelon was. "I'm sure it's sweet too!"

But when she cut it open to eat, all she found inside was dirt.

She vowed revenge!

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Inspired by: Young Brer Rabbit and Other Trickster Tales from the Americas by Jaqueline Shachter Weiss.

Notes: This story is on p. 34: "The Wax Doll." Weiss notes that the story comes from Colombia. In the story, she gives the watermelon as a gift to her friend the doctor, but I left him out. The story then goes on to describe how she got her revenge.