The Lion, The Bear, And The Fox
Aesop Fable: The Lion, The Bear, And The Fox
A lion and a Bear seized a Kid at the same moment, and
fought fiercely for its possession. When they had fearfully
lacerated each other and were faint from the long combat,
they lay down exhausted with fatigue.
A Fox, who had gone
round them at a distance several times, saw them both
stretched on the ground with the Kid lying untouched in
the middle. He ran in between them, and seizing the Kid
scampered off as fast as he could.
The Lion and the Bear
saw him, but not being able to get up, said, "Woe be to us,
that we should have fought and belabored ourselves only
to serve the turn of a Fox."
It sometimes happens that one man has all the toil, and
another all the profit.
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