The Wolves and the Sheepdogs

THE WOLVES thus addressed the Sheepdogs: “Why should you, who are like
us in so many things, not be entirely of one mind with us, and live
with us as brothers should? We differ from you in one point only. We
live in freedom, but you bow down to and slave for men, who in return
for your services flog you with whips and put collars on your necks.
They make you also guard their sheep, and while they eat the mutton
throw only the bones to you. If you will be persuaded by us, you will
give us the sheep, and we will enjoy them in common, till we all are
surfeited.” The Dogs listened favourably to these proposals, and,
entering the den of the Wolves, they were set upon and torn to pieces.




The Bull, the Lioness, and the Wild-Boar Hunter


A BULL finding a lion’s cub asleep gored him to death with his horns.
The Lioness came up, and bitterly lamented the death of her whelp. A
wild-boar Hunter, seeing her distress, stood at a distance and said to
her, “Think how many men there are who have reason to lament the loss
of their children, whose deaths have been caused by you.”