The Farmer and the Snake. 21 by
Townsend
ONE WINTER a Farmer found a Snake stiff
and frozen with cold. He had compassion on it, and taking
it up, placed it in his bosom. The Snake was quickly
revived by the warmth, and resuming its natural
instincts, bit its benefactor, inflicting on him a mortal
wound. "Oh," cried the Farmer with his last
breath, "I am rightly served for pitying a
scoundrel."
The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.
Pe176=Ch82, Ba143, Ph4.20, L'Es9, TMI
W154.2. W154.2.1.
Odo of Cheriton59=Pe617, Kalia and Dimna.
The Woodman and the Serpent. 17 by
Jacobs
One wintry day a Woodman was tramping
home from his work when he saw something black lying on the snow.
When he came closer he saw it was a Serpent to all appearance
dead. But he took it up and put it in his bosom to warm while he hurried
home. As soon as he got indoors he put the Serpent down on the
hearth before the fire. The children watched it and saw it
slowly come to life again. Then one of them stooped down to
stroke it, but the Serpent raised its head and put out its fangs
and was about to sting the child to death. So the Woodman
seized his axe, and with one stroke cut the Serpent in two.
"Ah," said he, "No gratitude from the wicked."
Cax1.10, Laf6.13, CS43.
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Reprint of "Eiri Kyoukun Chikamichi"
:Aesop's Fables in the Edo Era
by Sadao Mutou
The man and the Kappa
A man was working a way
in a mountain riding a horse. A Kappa had troubled
without water and said to the man
"I have nothing to
do because of no water. If you have taken me by a water
place, I will give you anything as he hope."
The man believed the
words. Then he put the Kappa on the back of a horse and
took by a water place. The man asked
"Please, give me
money according to the promise."
The Kappa got angry and
said "Why do I give you money? You injured me when
you bound me on the horse." A fox came there and
said
"Why have you
struggled?"
The Kappa explained how
it happened. The fox nodded and said
"Then I will decide
right or wrong. How were you bound?"
The Kappa rode the horse
to explain. The fox asked the man "How tightly did
you bound?"
The man bound the Kappa
again. However the Kappa said "I was more rigidly
tightend."
Then the fox bound the
Kappa more tightly and said to the man "Return the
Kappa to the former place!"
The man nodded and took
the Kappa at the former no water place. It was too late
to regret. After that the Kappa has been ruined by men
and foxes.
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Kappa is not a sports maker, but a water imp with a tortoise shell, a dish on
the head, and a bill. if the water in his head dish has
evaporated, he couldn't move at all.
Odo of Cheriton = Pe640, Cax5.4, Laf10.1, TMI J1172.3,
Type155.
Petri Alfonsi; Disciplina Clericalis 5, Goethe; Reineke
Fuchs 9
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