How the Terrapin Beat the Rabbit

A Cherokee story · Southern Appalachians; today Oklahoma and North Carolina · 3:24

A still from the film How the Terrapin Beat the Rabbit
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Rabbit is sure he can outrun Terrapin across four mountain ridges, and even gives him a head start. Terrapin quietly asks his relatives, who all look just like him, to wait along the route. At every ridge Rabbit sees a terrapin ahead of him, until he is too tired to go on.

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