Capitolo 8
of some terrible calamity, out it came to a Mouse.
Doesn't make a lot of ado around nothing.
The donkey, the Fox and the Leo
The donkey and the Fox, having entered together association for
their mutual protection, went out to the forest to chase. Them
you/he/she had not proceeded far when they met a Leo. The Fox, seeing
imminent danger, drew near to the Leo and promised to contrive for
him the capture of the donkey if the Leo didn't hock his/her word
to damage the Fox. Then, to I assure him the donkey that he is not able
the Fox is wounded you/he/she conducted him/it to a deep hole and you/he/she systematized that him
you/he/she should fall in him. The Leo, seeing that the donkey was insured,
it immediately grabbed the Fox, and it attached the donkey to his
ease.
The Tortoise and the Aquila
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, while hovering nearby himself/herself/itself, it felt his/her lamentation and it demanded that that
you compensate her it would give him/it if he picked aloft her up and afloat
his/her in the air. "I will give her", she said, "all the wealth of
the Red Sea." "I will teach Him to fly then", says the Aquila; and
picking above her up in his/her talons he almost brought her/it to the clouds
suddenly he allowed her to go, and she fell on a tall mountain, while throwing
his/her hull asunder. 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 Flies and the Honey-pot
A Number of Flies was attracted to a vase of honey that had been
upset in the room of a housewife, and putting their feet in him,
greedily eaten. However, their feet became so it dirtied with the
honey that they could not use their wings, neither liberation
them, and it was smothered. In the moment in which they was expiring,