The tortoise and the hare - Stories for Kids

Once upon a time there was a hare who boasting he can run faster than any one else is forever teasing tortoise  for his slowness  then, one day the irated tortoise answered back who do you think you are? There's no denying you are swift but even you can be beaten! The hare squealed with laughter!! Beaten in a race ? By whom ? Not you surely I bet there is nobody in the world that can win against me, I am so speedy... Now why don't you try? Annoyed by such bragging,the tortoise accepted the challenge a course is planned, and the next day at dawn, they stood at starting line. The hare yawned sleepily, as the meek tortoise tried to slowly off when the hare saw how painfully slow his rival was he decided, half  asleep on his feet, to have quick nap. "Take your time" he said..

I will have forty winks and catch up with you in minute. The hare woke with a start from fitful sleep and gazed around,  looking for the tortoise but the creature is only a short distance away having barely covered the third of the course. Waiting aside, relieved. The hare decides, he might  as well have his breakfast too..

And off he went to munch some cabbages he noticed in a near by field but the heavy meal and hot sun made his eye lashes droop with a careless glance of the tortoise, now half way along the course he decided to have another snooze before flashing past the winning post.. And smiling at the thought of the look on tortoise's face when it saw the hare speed by, he fell asleep and was soon snoring happily the sun started to sink below the horizon and the tortoise, who have been plotting towards the winning post since morning now scarsely a yard from the finish at that very point the hare woke with a jolt he could see the tortoise a speck in a distance and away he rashed he left and bounded at a great rate his tongue longing and gasping for breath just a little more and he be first at the finish but the hare's last leap was just too late. The tortoise had beaten him to the wining post poor hare tired and in disgrace he slumped down beside the tortoise who was silently smiling at him.. "Slow and steady does it every time" he said Turtle Interactive.