Many are familiar with Aesop’s fable of “The Tortoise And The Hare.” Here in Chatham County, North Carolina we have the fabled Chatham Rabbit, a cousin to Aesop’s hare of yore. But these days, the only races that give our critter notoriety involve evasive maneuvers to pursuits from hunters.
However, widespread reports of our rabbit challenging Rainbow Trout to speed contests in and along the Sissipahaw River exist in the annals of our county. Of course said contests pitted two speedsters against one another, albeit in vastly different environments. The official proclamation of the winner in “The Rainbow Trout And Chatham Rabbit Race” remains hidden in some dusty corner of historical archives.
Notwithstanding the lessons brought by Aesop’s tortoise, modern life insists on pitting human speedster against human speedster in mind numbing evolutions of time.
© Ilija Lukić 2021
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