The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-07-10
The Hare and the Hsdgs-HOg on
Buxtshude Health.

Iron tie Low German of AcslraoeT.i
This story is q tough one to tell,
Youngsters. but true It is for sll that !
/ for my grandfather, from whom 1 have
/ it, used always to say, when be told It
q True must It be, my son, otherwise
one could not tell it 50 at al And
/ this is the way the story ran .
Twas on a pleasant Sunday morning
/ toward harvest time, just Is the buck
wheat blossomed. The sun had gone
brightly up into the heaven; the morn
| ing wind swept warm over the stubble
the larks sang in the air the bees
| humued in the buckwheat the good
folk went in Sunday gear to church,
and all creatures we're happy and the
hedgehog also.
The hedgehog stood before the door
with his arms folded, peeped into the
air. and chirruped a little song to
himself, Just as good and Just as bad
as a hedgehog is wont to sing on q
pleasant Sunday morning. Ancl IS he
was singing to himself, in q CHEEKY
little voice, all at once 1t came into his
head that he might Just rs we'll, while
/ his wife washed and dressed the chill
| dren, take a walk into the field TO see
/ how his turnips we're standing. Now,
| the turnips were close to his house.
| and he used TO eat them with his faml-
ly. so that he looked upon them as his
own. No sooner said than done. The
hedgehog shut the house door to after
him aud took his way to the field.
He had not gone very FAR from the
house, and was about to turn, just by
the thorn bush which stands there be-
fore the field, near the turnip-patch,
when ne met the hare, who had gone
out on a similar business, namely, to
look after his cabbages. When tho
hedgehog caught sight Of the hare, he
bid him a friendly good morning -
But the hare, who, IN bis own way was
a mighty fine gentleman, and held his
head very high, answered nothing to
the hedgehog's greeting, but said to
the hedgehog, putting on thereby q
most scornful mien, " How happens It,
then. that thou art strolling about here
in the field so early in the morning2
"Pm taking walk, said the hedge
hog;
"methinls thou mightest use those
legs OF thine for better things.
The answer vexed the hedgehog
hugely, for he could stand almost any
thing, but his legs he did not like to
have spoken about, because they were
crooked by nature
Thou thinkest, perhaps" said the
hedgehog 10 the hare, "thou could'st
do more with thine own legs !"
That's what 1 dc think, said the
hare.
'.That depends upon the trial. {"
quoth the hedgehog. - 1 bet that If
we run a race together, beat thee hol-
low"
ssThat's quite iaughabls, thou with
thy crooked legs, said the hare, !" but
| ! We nothing against It Il thou arr SO
bent upon it. Whats the bet p
"a golden iouis dor and a bottle Of
brandy I" said the hedgehog.
Done" said the hare, 81 fall IN and
! then It may come of at once"
4" Nay, there's no such hurry" said
/ the hedgehog, " I'm still quite hungry;
/ I'll go home and get bit Of breakfast
] first: within half aR hour III be here
again on the spot
With this the hedgehog went his
way, for the hare was also content.
On tire way the hedgehog thought to
himself
The hare trusts to his long legs,
but I'll fetch him for all that he's q
/ fine gentleman 10 be sure, but still ho
is only a stupid fellow, and pay he
shall p
Now when the hedgehog came to his
house, lie said to his wife, Wife,
dress thyseif in my gear, quickly
thou must 90 with me to the field.
"What's all this about p said the
wife.
I've bet the hare a golden louis d
or and q bottle If brandy that beat
him a race, e1d thou must be BY.
80 my God, husband T. began the
hedgehog's wife 20 cry, '' art thou fool
ish hast thou quite lost thine under
standings How canst thou wish % run
a race with the hare ?"
q Hold thy mouth, wife, said tho
| hedgehog, CHATS nay business don't
meddle with mems affairs. March
/ dress thyself IN my clothes, and then
come along"
What could the hedgehog's wife do2
She had to follow whether she would
or no. When they were on the way
/ together, the hedgehog ssid 10 his
/ wife g. New listen to what have 10
say. Ses'st thou, oE the long acre
| wonder will be run our race. The hare
/ rims IN one furroW and i IN another,
and we begin TO run from up there.
/ Now thou hast nothing else 10 do than
/ to take thy place here in the furrow,
/ and when the hare comes up on the
/ other side thou must call out to him,
Tn here already ?" With this they
!
showed his wife her place, and went up
/ the furrow. When he got te the upper
! end the hare was already there.
ssCan we start p said the hare.
Eyes. indeed T. said the hedgehog.
8To II. then - and with that each
placed himself IN mis- furrow, and the
! hare counted one, two, three, and away
/ he went like e etor1n-wiDd dczn the
field. But the hedgehog ran. about
/ three steps. and then ducked down Ia
the furrow and sat still.
When the hare, on the fnl bound,
came 20 the lower end Of tho held, the
hedgehog's wife called cut 70 him. I'm
here already Z, The hare started, and
wondered not little he thought not
/ otherwise than that il was the hedge
hog himself that 1un ont % meet him,
for. as every one knows, the hecRchcSs s
/ wife looks lust like her husband.
/ But hare tss0aght There's some
4 ching wrong eioout al this Another
racel Atit again. And away he went
ike a storm. wind, 30 that his ears lay
I sot on his head. But the hedgeh0g's
Vie sfayed quietly Ia her place. When
/ the hare came 10 the upper end tho
hedgehog called out % hiu, Il 10 here
already" Bnt the hare, beside hinl-
self with rage, cried .'Another race !
/ At it again Z
{" I'm quite willing, answered the
hedgehog, just as often as thou
Iikest.
So the hare ran three and seventy
! times and the hedgehog held out 10
/ tbe very end with him Every time
/ sbe hare came either below or shove,
/ tbe hedgehog or his wife said, I'm
! here already
But the four and ssvent5e.h time the
I here came no more to the end. In the
middle ~ the field he fell 20 the earth
end Law dead upon the spot.
So the hedgehog took the louis deg
ana the bottle Of brandy Be had won.
calies his wife out Of thE farross. and
both went home toNethar aad e they
have not died they aFe tfviag ssill. So
happened it ihef on ths Buxtehuds
health the hedgehog ran ths hare u
death. aad SINCE that time 10 hare hsB
ever arEq7lcd 81 rgfnnina 4 rena With o