1. It wasn't long before the hare fell into a ________ sleep.

2. One winter's day when the sun was shining you could hear the ________ of great activity.

3. He saw the ants and ________ them with all the strength he could find to let him have a little food.

4. One day a hare looked at a tortoise and ________ the short feet of the tortoise.

5. What you could hear was the ants who were ________ drying grain.

6. Invariably Poirots calls all the ________ together in the last part of the story.

7. The tortoise agreed that the hare ran as fast as the wind but claimed that he could easily ________ him in a race.

8. The house dog asked him not to pick on him if he wanted to ________ someone.

9. The moral of this fable is: slow but ________ always wins the race in the end.

10. It was ________ that the tortoise should choose the course and also the end of the race.