Capitolo 48
of a Hawk that should pursue the greatest birds. It said the Hawk: "ME
you/he/she would have had to lose indeed my senses if I had to leave ready food to mine goes
gives, in the interest of pursuing birds among which I/you/they am not also still
sight."
A bird in the hand is worth in the bush.
The Hen and the Swallow.
A Hen that finds the eggs of a viper, and attentively holding them warm,
feeds them in the life. A Swallow that observes what she had done, says:
"You foolish creature! Because you have brooded these vipers that, when them
you/he/she will be grown, it will certainly inflict damage on everybody of us, while starting
with You?"
If we feed bad, it will turn sooner or later on us.
The Herdsman and the Taurus Perduto.
[The illustration]
A Herdsman, taking takes care of him of kine in a forest lost a Taurus-calf from the fold.
After a long and unfruitful search, he made a vow that, if he was only able
discovers the thief that had stolen the Calf he would offer a lamb in
you sacrifice Custodian of the forest to the Divinities. Not long later, as
he climbed a small hillock, he saw to his/her foot a Leo that feeds on the
Calf. Terrorized to the sight, he lifted his/her eyes and his/her hands to
sky, and says: "Just now I voted to propose a lamb to the Keeper
The divinities of the forest if I could only discover who had stolen me; but
now that I have discovered the thief, I would add gladly a mature
You speculate to the Calf that I have lost, and gives them both to the keepers of the
you forest, if I can only assure my really you escape from this terrible Leo in
safety."
[The illustration]
What that we am anxious to discovery, we am also sometimes more anxious to
you escape from, when we have succeeded in to find him/it.
The Boy of the Shepherd and Wolf.
A Shepherd-boy of what it looked at a flock sheep near a village, revealed
the inhabitants of a village three or four times shouting, "Wolf! Wolf!" and when
his/her neighbors came to help him/it, laughed to them for their pains. The
Wolf really it came however, finally. The Shepherd-boy, now really