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There was a large reward offered -- indeed, there were two rewards offered, a larger and a lesser one -- for the greatest speed, not in one race alone, but to such as had got on fastest throughout the year.
"I got the highest prize," said the hare. "One had a right to expect justice when one's own family and best friends were in the council; but that the snail should have got the second prize I consider as almost an insult to me."