Capitolo 52
hotels, while kicking on his/her heels without measure, and skipping about and giving birth as
well as him it was able. Him next they tried to jump on his/her master as him you/he/she had seen
the Womb-dog does, but he broke the table and you/he/she smashed all the dishes on
it to atoms. He tried then to lick his/her master, and it jumped on his
back. The servants that hear the strange noise, and perceiving the danger
of their master, it quickly assuaged him, and it drove out the donkey to his
puts in the stall, with kicks and batons and cuffs. The donkey, almost stricken to
death, so it complained: "I have brought him all on me! Because it was able not me
you/he/she has been satisfied for working with my companions, and it doesn't try to live from
idleness?"
The Tortoise and the Aquila.
[The illustration]
A Tortoise, while lazily cooking himself/herself/itself in the sun, it complained him to the sea-birds of
his/her hard fate, that nobody would teach him to fly. An Aquila, hovering himself/herself/itself
nearby it felt his/her lamentation, and it required that reward she would have given
him, if he picked aloft her up, and it is her/it floating in the air. "I will give
You", she said, "all the wealth of the Red Sea." "I will teach Him to
you fly then", says the Aquila; and picking above her up in his/her talons, he brought
his/her almost to the clouds,--when allowing her of suddenly to go, she fell on a
tall mountain, and destroyed asunder his/her hull. The Tortoise exclaimed
in the moment of death: "I have deserved my present fate; for what had me
to do with wings and clouds on that they are able with movement of difficulty around the
earth?"
If men had all of them they desired, they would be often ruined.
The Porcupine and the Snakes.
A Porcupine, while wanting to protect himself/herself/themselves, it desired a nest of Snakes to
give him admission in their cavern. They was prevailed on, and impediment
him in accordingly; but you/he/she was troubled so with his/her prickly and acute quills
what they repented soon of their easy acquiescence, and it implored the