Capitolo 71
In the meantime, the Aquila, full of fear of the Sow, sat still on the
branches and the Sow, terrorized from the Aquila it didn't dare to go out
from his/her cavern; and so them each, with their families it perished from
hunger.
In those that mix on the enmities you/they won't be had trust.
The Peacock and the Gossiper.
[The illustration]
The Birds met together once to choose a king; and, among others, the
Peacock was a candidate. Spreading his/her fluorescent tail, and walking stiff on and
down with affected grandeur, him taken the eyes of the foolish crowd
from his/her bright aspect, and it was chosen with acclamation. The
Gossiper advanced ahead then in the mean of the reunion, and this way
he turns the new king: "Can arrange Your majesty, elects to allow a
humble admirer to propose a question. How our king, we put our lives and
the fortunes in Your hands. If, therefore, the Aquila, the vulture and the
Kite, should make a descent on us, what wants to say it is able you he/she takes for ours
does defend?" This pithy question opened the eyes of the Birds to the
the weakness of their choice and them annulled the election.
The Two Goats.
[The illustration]
Two Goats started to the same moment, from thin opposite to cross a
ill-mannered bridge that was only wide enough for one to cross to a duration.
Meeting himself/herself/itself to the middle one of the bridge, neither it would give way to the
other. They closed key horns and they fought for the right of way until them,
both the skin in the stream under and you/he/she was drowned.
The Dove and the Ant.
[The illustration]
An Ant went to the bank of a river to extinguish his/her thirst, and, being
transported by the rush of the brook, it was on the point to be
drowned. A Dove, while sitting on a tree that overhangs the water, it tore a
puts the leaves, and allows him to fall in the brook next to her. The Ant, climbing on
to him, it was floating in safety to the bank. Shortly after a receiver of bird
come nearby and it was standing under the tree, and it placed his/her cement-twigs for the