<P> `` The Tortoise and the Hare '' is one of Aesop 's Fables and is numbered 226 in the Perry Index . The account of a race between unequal partners has attracted conflicting interpretations . It is itself a variant of a common folktale theme in which ingenuity and trickery ( rather than doggedness ) are employed to overcome a stronger opponent . </P>
<P> `` The Tortoise and the Hare '' is one of Aesop 's Fables and is numbered 226 in the Perry Index . The account of a race between unequal partners has attracted conflicting interpretations . It is itself a variant of a common folktale theme in which ingenuity and trickery ( rather than doggedness ) are employed to overcome a stronger opponent . </P>
who wrote the story of the tortoise and the hare
who wrote the story of the tortoise and the hare
Aesop
Aesop