Fable #6

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One moonlight evening as Master Fox was taking his usual stroll in the woods, he saw a number of Pheasants perched quite out of his reach on a limb of a tall old tree. Then one fine day in early spring he found himself with not a penny left, and no property save the clothes he wore. When the weather cleared, and the Shepherd led the Goats out to feed, the Wild Goats scampered off to the hills. The object they saw came ever nearer the shore. I admire your honesty, he said, and as a reward you may have all three axes, the gold and the silver as well as your own. I wasn't born until this year. You are a citizen of illustrious Athens, are you not?, asked the Dolphin politely. Tomorrow we must set to work, ourselves. Now you see that even a Mouse can help a Lion.

When the great fall out, the weak must suffer for it.