The Hare and The Tortoise Story, Fable by Aesop | Moral Story for Kids with Audio in English

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The Hare and The Tortoise Story by Aesop. In this moral story for kids, you are going to listen the audio version of one of Aesop’s fables in English: The Tortoise and The Hare. In our video, the hare and the tortoise folktale is read aloud together with real videos of a rabbit and a turtle. Subscribe to Kiddopedia channel for more educational videos for children →

Aesop was a Greek story teller, who was an observer of animals and people. The majority of the characters in his stories are animals. They may take on some human characteristics; they can talk and show emotions. Each story has an accompanying moral to be learned from the folktale.

"The Tortoise and the Hare" is one of Aesop's Fables. This fable is numbered 226 in the Perry Index. The moral of the story is “slow and steady wins the race”. We have included English subtitles to this video, so you can read it online while listening to the audio narrative.

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THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE STORY
Fable by Aesop
A Hare once said boastfully that he could run faster than any of the other animals. “I have never yet been beaten” said he, ''and I never shall be. I dare anyone here to run a race with me”. The Tortoise answered quietly, *I will run a race with you/’.
"You!" laughed the Hare, "Hah! Hah! Hah! That is a good joke. A Turtle run a race with a Hare! Why, I could dance around such a slow-poke as you all the way, and still reach the goal first.'*
"Keep such big talk until you've truly won the race," said the Tortoise.
But the Hare continued to laugh: "Ho! Ho! Ho! Hah! Hah! Hah! A Turtle run a race with a Hare. Everybody come and see! The Turtle would run a race with the Hare."
All the little Forest Folk heard and came up to see the fun. ''Well, well, well,' said a Raccoon to a Woodchuck. “Think of it! Friend Turtle, whose legs are so short he can hardly crawl, will run a race with the Hare! Why, the Hare's hind legs are so long he can go at one leap as far as Friend Turtle can creep in fifty slow steps!” So the Raccoon laughed, and the Woodchuck laughed, and all the little Forest Folk laughed. But the Tortoise still stuck to it that he would run the race.
So they decided on a starting place and on the road they should run to the goal. Then they put their toes to the line and made ready. ''One, two, three, go!'' shouted the Raccoon. They were off!
The Hare darted almost out of sight at once, but when he had gone half way, he stopped. Just to show how certain he was of reaching the goal ahead of the Tortoise, he lay down in the middle of the road and went to sleep. He slept and he slept and he slept, but the Tortoise plodded on and plodded on and plodded on.
At last, when the Hare awoke from his nap, lo and behold! he saw the Tortoise had gone all the way round the race course and was back again near the winning-post. Then, though he ran as fast as he could to make up for lost time, he could not reach the goal until after the Tortoise.
'Three cheers for Friend Turtle! Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!' shouted all the little Forest People.
But the Tortoise said quietly to the Hare: "He who keeps steadily at work always comes out ahead."

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