well sir out in the woods one day a hare was bragging bragging about how fast he could run fastest runner in the woods i am let me tell you once i was out just practising around ducking through the trees and hopping over logs on a fox started to chase me oh did i show him up and then the dog almost ran over me but did i leave him behind you know all i can  any animal i dare anyone to race with me the goose thought i wouldn't care to neither what i thought scottie the fox had nothing to say i guess the hairs the chap said the rooster one to win well maybe said maybe cried the hare why that tardis is so slow he barely crawls i could eat half the day and start when he's nearly finished and stop to take a nap and still beat him across the finish line oh oh look who's here what can i do for you mr tartus i'll tell you the tortoise said that hare over there made me tired with his bragging and so i dared him to race with me now i'm not so fast but i'm steady and sure i may start slow and i may finish slow but i'll keep going said they all you're a funny one to run a race but may the best man when they all asked the fox to lay out a course for the race make it hard he said past the roots of this fallen tree that's pretty tough for racing but the hours ahead make it hard and now where i was i know i know the very place i'll have them go across this brook under the waterfall oh this will be good if the harry slips he'll fall in and get a soaking and the tortoise is bound to get a bath and next we need a good place for their last run down to the finish very good very good yes this will do nicely now down between these big trees and we'll and the race let's see  l right here at the root of this fallen tree that's it all this time the hare was getting ready for the race cleaning up his paws criminy his nails and the tortoise to get ready but he was putting down a solid meal mouthful after mouthful of his labor of grass that hair gave great care to getting his big hind legs ready sure that he would win the race and finally everything's ready the fox will start the mob the tortoise digs his feet into the ground on your marks get set barks the fox and they're all off goes the tardis yes he is off but to tell a truth he isn't exactly speeding along just yet the hairs that still a moment then he's off away past the rock in the grass sipping through the pharmacist the tardis is left far behind already but his legs are working better this may look silly to everyone else he thinks but i just couldn't stand the way that hair brag look at that white tail flash what a one sided race out here comes a real test going through the hollow log all how easy this is already he's halfway the fox is waiting to be sure the runners stay on the course and here comes mr hare far in the lead looks like the race there's no raise at all but wait a minute the tortoise is really going now on straight didn't true down the course all but that harry is fast slithering along over the brook and away and the poor plodding tortoise is only now coming to the hollow log up and inside and on to the other end now if he could only hop away well it's all in the game but i'm going to be that high kicking where he thought it was the last thing i'd do so the tortoise went steadily along the left right still in the race and that's not what the hare thought by this time he felt very safely in the lead he couldn't imagine that the tortoise would keep on plodding along so steadily left right left right left right left right and so the foolish hair fell fast asleep i'm going to catch that hare thought the tortoise if it takes all day but the fox could've picked out an easier course i'm not built for hopping over rocks and roots well let's see what this said of me  i'll get along somehow now wait a minute oh that's not helping my nose good thing i've got a hard shell and still look foolish there slept on and dreamed of winning and still the tortoise followed and now he comes right up to the stream under the waterfall it comes right up to the stream and down the bank and on word into the water are very cooling and pleasant good for my king feet thought the tortoise but i mustn't stop i must i must go on right left right left by this time the silly hair was sound asleep indeed and that is why he did not hear the shell of the tortoise scraping past nearby already as long ears were folded dreamed of nibbling a crispy carrot after winning the race and now at last the tortoise can see through the limbs of a fallen tree all the animals waiting for the finish judge hour perched above them the fox watching sleepily tired of waiting there's something whispered the goose something funny about this race judge ol with eyes wide open sees the thing coming toward him down the course it cannot be the hair he is still enjoying his nap it's the tortoise the clumsy fellow they said didn't have a chance but harry is a is nearing the line will he win after all now the rec room is a friend of the sleeping here he must go find him at once find out what is the matter down out of his tree hurry the reckon down to the ground he finds the sleeping  wake up sleep a head wake up you're going to lose if you don't hurry oh what speed swiftly down toward the finish line but you're too late my friend the tortoise is already across the tortoise said the owl we can learn something from this a tortoise beating a swift running hare it's plain to me that the race is not always to the swift and perhaps our friend the hare has learned this lesson