Strauss explains: "..why...the animals of the...leporine family...have slit noses and slit lips superior...we call harelip in people precisely because of this anatomical peculiarity in rabbits and hares” (Strauss 29). This establishes the relationship between the hare and the harelip, but what about the twin? Strauss expands by saying that in another telling of the myth, a toned-down version, the sister split the animal's body, creating two whole halves that would give birth to twins. This establishes the major relationship between the three things. He even manages to strengthen this relationship by analyzing another myth which speaks of a little girl who had a hare lip, was kidnapped with other children by an ogress, but escaped by getting out of a basket and dropping feet first. Strauss analyzed that the feet-first detail was synonymous with how the hare was positioned when hiding under the log beneath the older sister: feet-first. The meaning of each of the three is then seen as more closely related than one might suppose from initially perceiving the three in a series.