The Hares and the Frogs

    The Hares and the Frogs     

                          By: Aesop

The Hares were so persecuted by the other beasts, 

they did not know where to go. As soon as they saw a 

single animal approach them, off they used to run.

One day they saw a troop of wild Horses stampeding 

about, and in quite a panic all the Hares scuttled off

 to a lake hard by, determined to drown themselves

 rather than live in such a continual state of fear. 

 But just as they got near the bank of the lake, a troop

 of Frogs, frightened in their turn by the approach

 of the Hares scuttled off, and jumped into the water.

 "Truly," said one of the Hares, "things are not so bad as they seem: "There is always someone worse off than yourself."