The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1873-07-02
THE HARE AND THE HEDGEHOG.

IL, useu al"hyS 10 say when ne tOlu IL;
"True must it be, my sou, otherwise
one GOULD not tell it so at all !" And
this is the way the story ran;
Twas on a pleasant Sunday morn
ing towards harvest time, just as the
buckwheat blossemed. The sun had
gone brightly up into heaven the
mourning wind swept warm over the
stubble the larks sang ia the air
the bees hummed in the buckwheat; (;
the good folk went in Sunday gear TO
church, and all creatures we're happy
and the hedge.hog also.
The hedge-ho stood before the door
with his arms folded, peeped out into
the morning air, and chirruped q lit
tie song to himself, just as good and
just as bad as hedgehog is wont to
sing on pleasant Sunday morning.
And as he was singing to himself, in a
CHEEKY little voice, all at once it came
unto his head he might Just as well,
while his wife was washing and dross-
ing the children, take little walk in
to 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 bis family, so that he looked up
on thsm as his own. No sooner said
than done. The hedgehog shut the
house door to after him, and took his
way to the field. He had not gone
very far from the house, and was
about 10 turn, just by the thorn bush
which stands there before the field,
near the turnip patch, when he met
the hare, who had gone out on simi.
lar business, namely, to look after his
cabbages. When the hedge hog caught
sight of the hare, lie bid him q friendly
good morning." But the hare, who
ip his own way was mighty fine gen.
tleman, and held his head very high,
answered nothing to the hedge hog,
putting on thereby q most scornf0l
n,ein, "how happens it, then, that thou
art strolling about here in the field so
early in the morning?'
'I'm taking walk" said the
hedge. hog.
Taking walk" laughed the hare,
"methinks thou mightest use those
legs of thine for better things"
The answer yexed the hedge hog
hugely, for he could stand almost
anything bgt his legs he did not like
to have spoken about, because ,hey
were crooked by nature. y liI i
"Thop thinkest, pc, haps," said the
hedge hog to the hare, "thou could'st
do more with thine own legs?"
That's what | do think" saii the
hare.
"That depends upon the trial"
quote the hedgehog, II bet that ifI
we run race together, l teat tn e hol-
low"
That's quite laughable, thou with
thy crooked legs" said the hare, "but
I've nothing against it if thou art so |
bent upon it. What's the bet ?"
IA golden louis dor and bottle
of brandy" said the hedgehog
"Done," said the hare, "fall in and !
then it may come off at once"
"Nay, there's no such hurry" said
the hedgehog, "pm still quite hungry
I'll 60 home and get bit of break. !
fast first /; within half an hour I'll
With this the hedge hog went his
way, for the hare was also content.
On the way the hedgehog thought
to himself:
"Eke hare trusts his long legs, but
I'll fetch him for all that; he's a fine
gentleman to be sure, but still he's on
ly stupid fellow, and pay he shall -
Now when the hedge hog came to
bis house, he said to his wife, "Wie, /
dress thyself in my gear, quickly
thou must go with re to the field"
whats all this abeut?" said the
wife. r,
1--we bet the hare u golden louis
dor and bottle of brandy that |
beat him in a race, and thou must be
by" tfH
80 ny God, husband = began The ,
hedge-hogs wife to Ely, cart thou focl-
ish? How caust thou wish to run a :
race with the hare ?"
"HOld thy mouth, wife" said the
hedgehog, that's my business; don't ,
meddle With meas nfairs. March
dress thyself in my clothes, and then I
come along"
What could the hedge.bog's wife | |
do? She had to follow whether she ,
would or no. When they we're on the
way together, the hedgehog said to
bis wife; "Now listen to what l have |
10 say. See'st thou, on the long acre I
yonder will be run our race. The i
hare runs in one furrow and | in
mother, and We begin to rnp from up .
here. Now thgp hast nothing else
% do than to take Thy place ip the !
ihrrow, and when the bare comes UP
'n the other side thou must call out /
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