The later version of the story in La Fontaine's Fables (VI.10), while more long-winded, differs hardly at all from Aesop's. When the Hare awakes, however, he finds that his competitor, crawling slowly but steadily, has arrived before him. The hare soon leaves the tortoise behind and, confident of winning, takes a nap midway through the race. Tired of the Hare's arrogant behaviour, the Tortoise challenges him to a race. The story concerns a Hare who ridicules a slow-moving Tortoise. The fable itself is a variant of a common folktale theme in which ingenuity and trickery (rather than doggedness) are employed to overcome a stronger opponent. The account of a race between unequal partners has attracted conflicting interpretations. " The Tortoise and the Hare" is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 226 in the Perry Index. "The Tortoise and the Hare", from an edition of Aesop's Fables illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1912
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