Capitolo 66
does pick up a shop of food for the winter?" "The fact is", the responded
Grasshopper, "I being singing so busy that I didn't have the time." "If You
spends the summer to sing", he/she answered the Ants, "you cannot do best that
spends the winter to dance." And they snickered and they went above with them
job.
THE GROWER IS THE VIPER
A winter a Grower found a Viper him frozen and you/he/she numbs with cold, and out
some pity went him to take and put him/it in its breast. The Viper was anybody
it revived sooner from the heat that it turned on his/her benefactor and
inflicted a fatal bite on him; and as the poor men they placed to die him,
weeping, "I have it found what I deserved, to assume compassion this way
infamous a creature."
Gentleness is thrown away on the bad one.
THE TWO FROGS
Two Frogs were neighbours. One lived in a swamp, where there was
a lot of water that love of frogs: the other in a passage of the distance
street, where all the water was for being had that that disposition in the furrows
after rain. The Frog in Swamp warned his/her friend and pressed him/it to come
and alive with him in the swamp, for him it would find there his/her quarters
far more comfort and--that that was still more main point--surer.
But the other ones refused, while saying that he could not bring to stir him/it
from a place to which he had been gotten used. Some days later
a heavy wagon came down the passage, and he was crushed to death under
the wheels.
THE COBBLER TURNED DOCTOR
An a lot of unskilful Cobbler, finding himself/herself/itself incapable to earn a living to
its work, abdicated to arranging boots and started to corrupt instead. Him
it distributed that he had the secret of an universal antidote against everybody
poisons, and acquired any small reputation, thanks to his/her talent for
puffing himself/herself/itself. However, one day that he has demolished very sick; and the King of
the bethought of country him that he would examine the value of his/her remedy.
Calling, therefore for a cup, he poured out a dose of the antidote,
and, under pretense to mix poison with him, it added a small water,