Fable #594

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Some Dogs found the skin of a Lion and furiously began to tear it with their teeth. 'Down with all Cats,' is my motto! Then he heard the Mother's voice say: Hush, child, hush! What news?, asked the Cock very calmly. But he had a queer, fluttery feeling inside him. The Bees were just as sure that the treasure was theirs. But the Dolphins took the shipwrecked people on their backs and swam with them to shore. Every Mouse I catch, I am going to eat! So he made a great show of looking anxiously about, as if in fear of some hidden enemy. Then he flew down into the garden among the Peacocks. Look, cried a Hare, things are not so bad after all, for here are creatures who are even afraid of us!

Do not let your hopes carry you away from reality.