Three Hundred Æsop's Fables/The Hare and the Hound

London: George Routledge and Sons, page 113


THE HARE AND THE HOUND.

A Hound having started a Hare from his form, after a long run, gave up the chase. A Goat-herd seeing him stop, mocked him, saying, "The little one is the best runner of the two." The Hound replied, "You do not see the difference between us: I was only running for a dinner, but he, for his life."