Question

Which fable from aesop best illustrates the moral idea that incentive spurs effort? Patty the milkmaid a farmer who raised geese a hound chased a rabbit a lion and a bear?

Answer 1

The answer is "a hound chased a rabbit".

Here is the story;

"A Hound having started a Hare from his form, after a long run, gave up the chase. A Goat-herd, seeing him stop, mocked him, saying: "The little one is the best runner of the two." The hound replied; "You do not see the difference between us; I was only running for a dinner, but he for his life."

Aesop's Fables or otherwise known as the Aesopica, is an accumulation of tales credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller known to have lived in antiquated Greece somewhere in the range of 620 and 564 BCE.