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The Dog and his Master's Dinner.

A Dog had been taught to take his master's dinner to him every day. Ashe smelled the good things in the basket, he was sorely tempted to tastethem, but he resisted the temptation and continued day after day tocarry the basket faithfully. One day all the dogs in the neighborhoodfollowed him with longing eyes and greedy jaws, and tried to steal thedinner from the basket. At first the faithful dog tried to run awayfrom them, but they pressed him so close that at last he stopped toargue with them. This was what the thieves desired, and they soonridiculed him to that extent that he said: "Very well, I will dividewith you," and he seized the best piece of chicken in the basket, andleft the rest for the others to enjoy.

He who stops to parley with temptation, will be very likely to yield.

From Aesop's Fables