There was once a Hare who went for a walk in the green field. "Hop and skip and jump high," sang the Hare in great glee, and bounded and vaulted hinter and thinter, and now and then he stood up on his hind legs and looked around and listened.
Then a fox acme sneaking across the field. "Good day, good day," said the Hare. "I'm so happy today for having been married, so happy that I must tell you all about it." "That must have been very nice," said the fox. «Well, it wasn't always so nice either, for she was pretty tough at times too. A real devil she could be, the one I got for a wife," said the Hare. "It must have been really too bad for you, then," said the fox. "Oh, but it wasn't altogether as bad as it might have been. I got a good dowry with her, for she had a house of her own", said the Hare. "But that was a fine thing to get," said the Fox. "Well, that wasn't so good either, for the house burnt down," said the Hare. "And everything we owned went up in flames." "Oh, but that really was too bad!" said the Fox. "No, it wasn't so bad after all, for she burnt up with it," said the Hare.