“Please, please, Tortoise, Mr. Tortoise,
There is in all the world no one
So slow-footed as you;
Why are you so slow?”
“What do you say, Mr. Hare?
Then, I will race with you and see
Which will be the first to reach
The foot of yonder hill.”
“However the Tortoise may hurry,
He will take at any rate till night;