"O Brother Hare," she said, "run for your life! The earth is falling in!"
"What is that you say!" cried the other hare. "Then I will run, too."
This hare told another hare, and the other hare told other hares, and soon all the hares were running as fast as they could run, and crying:
"The earth is falling in! O, the earth is falling in!"
The big beasts heard them, and they too began to run and to cry:
"O, the earth is falling in! Run for your life!"
A wise old lion saw them running and heard them crying.
"I cannot see that the earth is falling in," he said.
Then he cried out to the poor frightened beasts to stop.