
The Lion, the Bear, and the Fox.A Lion and a Bear seized upon a kid at the same moment, and foughtfiercely for its possession. When they had fearfully lacerated eachother, and were faint from the long combat, they lay down exhausted withfatigue. A Fox who had gone round them at a distance several times, sawthem both stretched on the ground, and the Kid lying untouched in themiddle, ran in between them, and seizing the Kid, scampered off as fastas he could. The Lion and the Bear saw him, but not being able to getup, said: "Woe betide us, that we should have fought and belaboredourselves only to serve the turn of a Fox!" It sometimes happens that one man has all the toil, and another all theprofit. From Aesop's Fables |