One day the hare ridiculed the short legs and slowness of the tortoise.
The tortoise laughed and said, “Though you are as swift as the wind, I will beat you in a race.” The hare thought that it was impossible, so he agreed to the dare.
On the day of the race, they took off together. The hare easily took the lead. While the tortoise tried to walk as fast as he could. No matter how tired the tortoise become, he never once stopped to rest. Unlike the hare, who when saw that the tortoise was so far away from him, decided to lay down by the roadside and fell fast asleep. At last the hare woke up and did not see the tortoise anywhere, so he ran as fast as he could. But as he approached the goal, he saw that the tortoise was already there and was comfortably sleeping after winning the race. Moral of the story: where there’s a will, there’s away.