Just as a great Bear rushed to seize a stray kid, a Lion leaped from another direction upon the same prey. The Monkey sat up, grave and dignified, on the Dolphin's back. Then is the time to eat me. The Wolf could not help thinking how nice it would be to have a fine fat Dog to eat instead of the scrawny object before him. Then one fine day in early spring he found himself with not a penny left, and no property save the clothes he wore. When the weather cleared, and the Shepherd led the Goats out to feed, the Wild Goats scampered off to the hills. The object they saw came ever nearer the shore. I admire your honesty, he said, and as a reward you may have all three axes, the gold and the silver as well as your own. I wasn't born until this year. It would have been quite a different scene had a Lion made it!
In quarreling about the shadow we often lose the substance.