An Ox came down to a reedy pool to drink. The Fox saw a slender chance of escape. After many years, Tortoise began to wish he had gone to that wedding. The Father then untied the bundle and gave the sticks to his Sons to break one by one. And when he came out of the warren in the early morning sunshine, and there saw the shadow cast by his long and pointed ears, a terrible fright seized him. At last one of the Frogs, the oldest and bravest, put his head out of the water, and said, Oh, please, dear children, stop your cruel play! See, said the man, that's how strong we are! You may have luxuries and dainties that I have not, she said as she hurried away, but I prefer my plain food and simple life in the country with the peace and security that go with it.
It is wicked to take advantage of another's distress.