The Tortoise and the Hare (5)

The Tortoise and the Hare (5)

  " I've got lots of time, " the hare bragged, " and I'll still beat the old slowpoke. "

  And he and bunnies laughed and laughed at the poor tortoise.

  " Let me slow you a few speedy tricks, " said the hare, delighted to impress his pretty audience.

  The girls watched him with round eyes.

  He picked up a bow and arrow, shot the arrow, placed an apple on his head, and ran twenty feet towhere the arrow neatly split the apple in half.

  " He sure can run like sixty, " sighed one of the bunnies.

  " Heck, "said the hare.
  " I was only warming up. "

  But the bunnies were getting worried about the race.
  " Don't you think you'd better go ? " they asked.

  " I've got lots of time, " said the cocky hare.
  " Watch what I can do on the tennis court. "

  And he picked up a racquet and ball, sent a smashing serve over the net, leaped over the net and returned the serve, leaped back and volleyed, and kept that up until he was quite out of breath.

  " Oooh, " sighed the admiring bunnies.

  But the hare heard another ssound in the distance, the sound of cheering, and it wasn't for him.


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