But the Hare, quite beside himself with jealousy, shouted:
“We must run again!”
“Right!” said the Hedgehog. “As often as you like.”
And so the Hare went on, running backward and forward seventy-three times, and every time the Hedgehog got the better of him. Every time the Hare arrived at one end or the other, the Hedgehog or his wife called out:
“Here I am already!”
But the seventy-fourth time the Hare dropped down dead tired before he got half-way. So the Hedgehog took his golden guinea, and he and his wife went home very well pleased with themselves. And so my tale is finished.
Bruno’s Story
[From “Sylvie and Bruno.”]
“Once there were a mouse and a crocodile and a man and a goat and a lion,” said Bruno.
“And the mouse found a shoe, and it thought it were a mouse-trap. So it got right in, and it stayed in ever so long.”