Fable #118

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A Lion and an Ass agreed to go hunting together. Please pull it out, he pleaded, groaning as if in pain. A Fox chanced to see them and laughed scornfully. Can Mice fly? But he took such a great fistful that he could not draw his hand out again. The Satyr sprang hurriedly to his feet and made for the door. That's what I call real beauty.

The evil doer often comes to harm through his own deceit.