Imagine that, shortly after his defeat by the tortoise, the hare had demanded a rerun on selected parts of the course. The tortoise protested, and the umpire, coinci-dentally another tortoise, backed him. The hare appealed to a court, coincidentally composed of seven hares, who let him rerun those bits. Now, groundsmen on one of the sections of the course are saying they cannot arrange a re-match after all, the tortoises on the local council are threatening to reject anything that might give the race to the hare, and both sides have hired the best alligators money can buy.
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