Once upon a time, there lived an old man and his wife. A bad raccoon dog always ate the vegetables in their field. One day, the old man caught the raccoon dog. He tied up the raccoon dog with a rope and brought it home. But the raccoon dog killed the old man’s wife while he was away. The old man was very sad and talked about it to his rabbit friend. The rabbit decided to do something about it. He asked the raccoon dog to gather firewood with him.
The two of them gathered a lot of firewood and tied it on their backs. The raccoon dog started walking in front of the rabbit. While they were walking beside a river, the raccoon dog heard a sound.
He said, Mr. Rabbit, do you hear that click-clack sound? What is it?
The rabbit said, I don't know. Maybe it's the click-clack bird of the Click-Clack Mountain singing.
But it was actually the sound of the rabbit using two stones to start a fire.
After a while, the firewood on the raccoon dog’s back started burning.
The raccoon dog asked, Mr. Rabbit, do you smell something burning?
The rabbit answered, That’s the smell of the click-clack bird.
Then, all the firewood on the raccoon dog’s back really started to burn.
Ouch. The raccoon dog ran and jumped into the river, but he had a bad burn on his back.
The next day, the rabbit was making some miso pasete at home.
Then, the raccoon dog came and said, I had a really bad day yesterday.
The rabbit said, Yes, you did. How is your back? I have some good medicine for burns. And he put some miso on the raccoon dog’s back. But the miso had hot peppers in it. The raccoon dog ran home crying, Aw. Aw. It hurts.
A few days later, the rabbit was building a boat out of wood on the beach. The raccoon dog stopped to watch. The rabbit said, I’m going out to sea to catch some fish. Would you like to come with me? The raccoon dog said, Of course I'll come with you.
The rabbit said, My boat is small, so why don't you build one, too? You can dig in the ground and make a boat out of mud.
The raccoon dog worked hard making a boat out of mud. Then, the two of them went out to sea in their boats.
After a while, the raccoon dog’s boat started to break apart.
He cried, Oh, no. But it was too late. He started to go down into the sea with his mud boat. The rabbit said, you'll never hurt anyone again.
The raccoon dog went down to the bottom of the sea and never came up again.