A Fox and a Leopard, resting lazily after a generous dinner, amused themselves by disputing about their good looks. 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! There they left him to mourn the foolishness that had brought him nothing but a sound beating.
The unjust will not listen to the reasoning of the innocent.