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THE ASTORIAN • SATURDAY, JULY 17, 2021
© 2021 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 37, No. 34
Here’s a Greek fable by a man
named Aesop about a race
between a tortoise and a hare.
It may surprise you who wins!
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The hare ran so fast some of the words flew out of
the story. Can you find where each word belongs?
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GO!
The hare zipped off
the starting line in a
blur, leaving the
tortoise in a puff of dust.
The tortoise coughed,
__________ her eyes,
and took the first of
her slow, steady steps.
here once was a hare who
always bragged that he was the
_______ animal in the forest.
“Not even the wind is as fast as
me!” the hare would boast.
The tortoise got ________ of
such bragging.
The hare was soon
way ahead, far down
the road. The tortoise could
hardly see the hare in the
distance, but she wasn’t worried.
“We all have heard you talk and
talk about how fast you are, but
we have never seen you ______.
I’ll race you,” said tortoise.
wake up. The tortoise didn’t stop.
She just kept walking her slow
and steady pace.
When the tortoise was
nearly to the finish
line, the hare
woke up. Yawning
and rubbing his
eyes, he was shocked
to see the tortoise
nearing the __________ line.
As the hare rounded the bend in
the road, he laughed and thought,
“This is too _______! I’m going
to rest. That tortoise is so slow
that I’ll get up in time and still
beat her to the finish line!”
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he hare and the tortoise agreed
to race the next __________.
They would race to a big
tree down the road and around
a bend. Many other animals
came out to _________.
About Aesop
Aesop was a storyteller. He lived about
2,500 years ago in ancient Greece. His
favorite story to tell was a fable. A fable
is a very short story with a moral, or a
lesson to teach.
The hare laid down on the warm,
soft grass and fell asleep! Later,
when the tortoise walked right by
the ____________ hare, he didn’t
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The hare __________ to his feet
and ran as fast as he could to
try catching up to her
to ______ the race.
The hare laughed and laughed.
“There’s no way you can beat
me! I am the fastest and you are
the ____________!”
Great
Ocean
ut by then it was
much too late.
The slow little tortoise
________ the finish
line first. All of the
forest animals cheered
loudly for her!
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Use the code to discover the moral of Aesop’s fable
The Tortoise and the Hare.
Aesop’s fable The Fox and the Grapes tells
about a fox who tries and tries to reach
grapes on a high branch. Embarassed by
being unable to jump high enough to
reach them, the fox walks off angrily,
saying loudly that the grapes are sour
and not worth the effort anyway.
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