A Traveler had hired an Ass to carry him to a distant part of the country. How could I have done so?, pleaded the Lamb But before he could untie the reed that bound him to the dead Mouse, a Hawk came sailing over the pond. Then one day all the Dogs in the neighborhood got together and met him on his way with the basket. After much pretty love-making and many whispered vows of constancy, the Butterfly took a tender leave of his sweetheart. The Shepherd saw the fluttering Jackdaw and at once guessed what had happened. In a few days my master will give a wedding feast for his only daughter. One day the Brass Pot proposed to the Earthen Pot that they go out into the world together. The wind redoubled in fury, and all at once the great tree fell, torn up by the roots, and lay among the pitying Reeds.
It is easy and also contemptible to kick a man that is down.