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The hare and the tortoise
Aesop's Fables
Short | Fable/ folktale

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The tortoise was laughed at by the hare because she is slow, the torotise tired of the hare's arrogance challenges him to a race where the tortoise wins because the hare takes a nap in between the race because of the advantage he already had.

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The tortoise was laughed at by the hare because she is slow, the torotise tired of the hare's arrogance challenges him to a race where the tortoise wins because the hare takes a nap in between the race because of the advantage he already had.

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Attributed to Henry Stannard, The Hare and the Tortoise, Chromolithograph, 226 mm x 201 mm, 1844-1920. Academy of Arts, Royal Academy.

Gustave Dore, The hare and the tortoise, Wood engraving,1868. The New York Public Library, Digital Collections

Howitt, Samuel, Hare’s Profile, etching, 1811. © CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/terms-of-use/

Foster, Myles Birket, Tall trees, green arbours, and ground flowers in flocks, 1825-1899. © CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/terms-of-use/

Unknown author, A turtle, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, No known restrictions on publication.

James Dekay, The Smooth Terrapin (Emys terrapin), 1843. From The New York fauna.

Milto Winter, The Hare and the Tortoise, 1919.

Ernest Griset, The Hare and the Tortoise, 1874.

J. Mazzanovich, Spring, 1888.

Howitt Samuel, The Hare and The Tortoise, 1809

Arthur rackham, The Hare and The Tortoise, London National Art Library, 1912

Thomas Bewick, The Hare and the Tortoise, 1818. National Art Library Pressmark.