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than you can. If you are long-legged you cannot run so fast as
I."  "Then let us run a race!" said the deer.  "Well!" answered
the tortoise, "when shall we run!"   "At what time?"  "Very
early in the morning."  "Eng-éng!"[1] assented the tortoise, who
then went into the forest and called together his relations, the
other tortoises, saying: "Come, let us kill the deer!"  "But how
are you going to kill him?" inquired they.  "I said to the
deer," answered the tortoise, "let us run a race! I want to see
who can run the faster." Now I am going to cheat that deer. Do
you scatter yourselves along the edge of the campo, in the
forest, keeping not very far from one another, and see that you
keep perfectly still, each in his place! To-morrow, when we
begin the race, the deer will run in the campo, but I will
remain quietly in my place. When he calls out to me, if you are
ahead of him, answer,