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The Eagle and the Fox.

An Eagle and a Fox formed an intimate friendship, and decided to livenear each other. The Eagle built her nest in a tall tree, while the Foxcrept into the underwood and there produced her young. Not long after,when the Fox was ranging for food, the Eagle, being in want of provisionfor her young ones, swooped down and seized upon one of the little cubs,and feasted herself and brood. The Fox on her return, discovering whathad happened, was less grieved for the death of her young than for herinability to avenge them. A just retribution, however, quickly fell uponthe Eagle. While hovering near an altar, on which some villagers weresacrificing a goat, she suddenly seized a piece of flesh, and carriedwith it to her nest a burning cinder. A strong breeze soon fanned thespark into a flame, and the eaglets, as yet unfledged and helpless, wereroasted in their nest and dropped down dead at the bottom of the tree.The Fox gobbled them up in the sight of the Eagle.

The tyrant is never safe from those whom he oppresses.

From Aesop's Fables