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Friday, September 03, 2010 - 8:00 PM
The Wolf and the Crane
A Wolf who had a bone stuck in his throat hired a Crane, for a
large sum, to put her head into his mouth and draw out the bone. When the
Crane had extracted the bone and demanded the promised payment, the Wolf,
grinning and grinding his teeth, exclaimed: "Why, you have surely already
had a sufficient recompense, in having been permitted to draw out your
head in safety from the mouth and jaws of a wolf."
In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you
escape injury for your pains.
The Fisherman Piping
A fisherman skilled in music took his flute and his nets to the
seashore. Standing on a projecting rock, he played several tunes in the
hope that the fish, attracted by his melody, would of their own accord
dance into his net, which he had placed below. At last, having long waited
in vain, he laid aside his flute, and casting his net into the sea, made
an excellent haul of fish. When Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire saw them leaping about in the net upon
the rock he said: "O you most perverse creatures, when I piped you would
not dance, but now that I have ceased you do so merrily."
Hercules and the Wagoner
A carter was driving a wagon along a country lane, when the wheels
sank down deep into a rut. The rustic driver, stupefied and aghast, stood
looking at the wagon, and did nothing but utter loud cries to Hercules
to come and help him. Hercules, it is said, appeared and thus addressed
him: "Put your shoulders to the wheels, my man. Goad on your bullocks,
and never more pray to me for help, until you have done your best to help
yourself, or depend upon it you will henceforth pray in
vain."
Self-help is the best help.
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