The Mice once called a meeting to decide on a plan to free themselves of their enemy, the Cat. Wishing also to rest in the shade cast by the Ass, he began to quarrel with the Traveler, saying he had hired the Ass and not the shadow it cast. His limbs could no longer bear him, and the King of Beasts was very pitiful indeed as he lay gasping on the ground, about to die. What!, snarled the Wolf, whirling around. To cool my porridge, replied the Man. On the ground lay a Snake, stiff and frozen with the cold. You would be wiser, said an old acquaintance, to keep quietly out of sight with that clog. But the Beetle buzzed about Jupiter's head, and made him rise to drive her away; and the eggs rolled from his lap. I am of just as much importance, and But just then the royal Cat spied him, and the next instant, the Rat knew he was not quite so important as an Elephant.
Mother love is blind.