Fable #732

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Just as a great Bear rushed to seize a stray kid, a Lion leaped from another direction upon the same prey. Under his kindly appearance, he bears a grudge against every one of us. Once they decided to die rather than live in such misery. What makes you squeal like that? asked one of the Sheep. He very quickly captured the porker, which squealed at the top of its voice the moment the Shepherd laid his hands on it. So one day he climbed up on a shelf and hung from it, head downward, as if he were dead, holding himself up by clinging to some ropes with one paw. Did you buy it, or did the Shepherd make you a gift of it?, Pray tell me, how did you get it?

Your enemies will seize any excuse to attack you.