The Race

One day a chameleon invited an elephant to run a race with him the next day. The elephant accepted the challenge. During the night the chameleon hid several of his brothers at short distances along the route to be covered. At dawn, the elephant appeared, greeted the chameleon, and started running. Meanwhile, the chameleon had nimbly taken a place on the elephant‘s tail, without being noticed. Each time the elephant met one of the chameleon‘s brothers on the way, the elephant asked him, "Aren‘t you tired yet?" "No," was always the answer, until, at the place where the last of his brothers was waiting, the chameleon dropped from the elephant ‘s tail and set off to cover the last stretch of the road by himself.

By this time, the elephant was completely exhausted, and declared the chameleon the winner of the race.