Chapter 1 : 
The Owl and the Hare
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Author : Leo Tolstoy

Translator : Nathan Haskell Dole

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It was growing dark. The owls began to fly in the 
forest, over the ravine, in search of their prey. 
A big gray hare was bounding over the field, and 
began to smooth his fur. 
An old owl, as she sat on the bough, was watching 
the gray hare ; and a young owl said, " Why don't you 
pounce down on the hare ? " 
The old one replied : 
" I am not strong enough. The hare is large. If 
you should clutch him, he would carry you off into the 
thicket." 
But the young owl said : 
" Why, I could hold him with one claw, and with the 
other I could cling to the tree." 
And the young owl swooped down on the hare, 
clutched his back with his claw in such a way that all 
the nails sank into the fur, and he was going to cling 
to the tree with the other claw ; and he said to him- 
self : 
" He will not escape." 
But the hare darted himself away, and pulled the owl 
in two. One claw remained in the tree ; the other in 
the hare's back. 
The next year a sportsman killed this hare, and was 
surprised to find on his back the talons of a full-grown 
owl.



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