Fable #92

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Why in the world do you walk sideways like that? They drove him very slowly, for they thought they would have a better chance to sell him if they kept him in good condition. A single look was enough to send the Fox off at top speed for the nearest hiding place. Please let me go! Leave the woods; there you live miserably. We can help you to see the world, said the Ducks. Can you guess who it was that our young Mouse was trying to describe to his mother? You can't expect any constancy from me!

Better to yield when it is folly to resist, than to resist stubbornly and be destroyed.