Meaning of 僕も兎だった


僕も兎だったけど、よくお裾分けで渡してたんだ。  
The only thing I understand from the first part is I was also a rabbit.  
This doesn't fit with the context since the person saying this is without a
doubt a human.  
Any other meaning for this phrase? Or is this a typo?




> 僕も兎だったけど、よくお裾分けで渡してたんだ。

I think 僕も modifies 渡してたんだ, but not 兎だった.

From the source that l'électeurさん provided, we can't find other people who
hunt rabbits, so も doesn't make sense if 僕も modifies 兎だった.

Now a rough translation would be:

> Though it was (no more than) rabbit meat, I was also providing some meat to
> the shop.




If that sentence is taken from here:

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it makes perfect sense. 「僕{ぼく}も兎{うさぎ}だった」 means:

> "what I had (from my hunting) was rabbit meat"

Japanese is an incredibly contextual language. Not much of what we say
informally would make any sense if you translated it into English or any other
languages.

For instance, I always say 「ボクは犬{いぬ}です。」 to mean " ** _I was born in the year
of the dog_**." in a situation where someone asks me what animal zodiac year I
was born in. No one will think that I said "I'm a dog (, not a human)."

In an eatery, we say things like 「アタシはコーヒー。」、「僕はアイスティー」, etc. to tell the
clerk what we want to order. This is my favorite subject, but I will stop
here. Once again, direct translation will not work.

