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The Stag in the Ox-Stall.

A Stag, hardly pressed by the hounds, and blind through fear to thedanger he was running into, took shelter in a farm-yard, and hid himselfin a shed among the oxen. An Ox gave him this kindly warning: "O unhappycreature! why should you thus, of your own accord, incur destruction,and trust yourself in the house of your enemy?" The Stag replied: "Doyou only suffer me, friend, to stay where I am, and I will undertake tofind some favorable opportunity of effecting my escape." At the approachof the evening the herdsman came to feed his cattle, but did not see theStag. The Stag, congratulating himself on his safety, began to expresshis sincere thanks to the Oxen who had kindly afforded him help in thehour of need. One of them again answered him: "We indeed wish you well,but the danger is not over. There is one other yet to pass through theshed, who has as it were a hundred eyes, and, until he has come andgone, your life is still in peril." At that moment the master himselfentered, and having had to complain that his oxen had not been properlyfed, he went up to their racks, and cried out: "Why is there such ascarcity of fodder? There is not half enough straw for them to lie on.Those lazy fellows have not even swept the cobwebs away." While he thusexamined everything, he spied the antlers of the Stag peeping out of thestraw. Summoning his laborers, he ordered that the Stag should bekilled.

What is safety for one is not always safety for another.

From Aesop's Fables