Just as a great Bear rushed to seize a stray kid, a Lion leaped from another direction upon the same prey. One of the feats he told about was a leap he had made in a city Called Rhodes. A Kite saw her. Why do you look so woebegone? It is ages since you went away, and all the time, you have been carrying on with all sorts of flowers. Next year the Eagle built her nest far up on a mountain crag; but the Beetle found it and again destroyed the eggs. He had been working since sunrise and his strokes were not so sure as they had been early that morning. Indeed, said the Dolphin. Then of course you often visit Piraeus. At last he managed to scramble out, and as he stood sadly thinking about the good bone he had lost, he realized what a stupid Dog he had been.
The loud-mouthed boaster does not impress nor frighten those who know him.