... friend." "Come on, stumpy," goaded the hare, "can't you rise up when someone (huff-huff) throws down the gauntlet?" "I can't see how gauntlet abuse has anything to do with me," said the tortoise, who had apparently achieved slowness in more than one aspect of his character. "I enjoy my inertia and would rather just sit and watch the world go by." "Ooooh, how can you be so content?" fumed the hare. "You're just so smug (huff-huff), I challenge you to a race to show you the consequences and (preen-preen) health risks of such a sedentary lifestyle." The tortoise was appalled. "A ... competition?" He almost choked on the word. "Just to prove that one of us is somehow better than the other? What kind of example is that to set? I'll have no part of it." Some other animals that were standing nearby overheard this conversation and began to listen ...

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