The children's book; a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language (1910)
Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902 · Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 16
THE TORTOISE AND THE HARE. What a dull, heavy creature, says the Hare,is this Tortoise. And yet, says the Tortoise, I 11 run with you for a wager. Done, says … the Hare, and then they ask the Fo\ to be thejudge. They started together, and the Tortoise THE BOOK OF FABLES. kept jogging on still, till he came to the end ofthe course. The Hare laid himself down midwayand took a nap ; for, sajs he, I can catch upwith the Tortoise when I please. But it seemslie…
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