龟兔赛跑

In the big forest, there lived many animals. There was a beautiful hare who was very good at running. She almost won all the running races, so she became very proud.

Tortoise was the slowest in the forest. When other animals met him on the way, they always offered help, " Where are you going? Do you need a ride?” The tortoise would always answer them politely, " No, thank you. As long as I keep on crawling, I will get to my place finally. "

One morning, the hare saw the tortoise nearby. He was crawling slowly. The hare wanted to make fun of him. So she jumped toward the tortoise and said, “ Tortoise, why don't we have a race?"

The tortoise thought for a while and said, " OK, let's have the race now. " Hearing this, the hare couldn't help laughing. Then she pointed to the big tree at the foot of the hill and said, " All right, we‘ll start from here. Let's see who will get to that tree first?” The tortoise nodded in agreement.

The magpie flew around the forest. She told everybody the news. Everyone came to watch the race. They invited the squirrel brothers to be the judges. Younger brother squirrel stood at the starting line, and elder brother squirrel waited at the finishing line.

" Ready! Go—" younger brother squirrel ordered. The hare ran forward very fast. " The hare is so fast! The tortoise has no chance to win! " the animals said. Soon afterwards, the hare had left the tortoise far behind. She thought, " The tortoise racing with the hare, what a joke! I'll teach him a lesson. "