The Manslayer
Aesop Fable: The Manslayer
A man committed a murder, and was pursued by the relations
of the man whom he murdered. On his reaching the
river Nile he saw a Lion on its bank and being fearfully
afraid, climbed up a tree.
He found a serpent in the upper
branches of the tree, and again being greatly alarmed, he
threw himself into the river, where a crocodile caught him
and ate him. Thus the earth, the air, and the water alike
refused shelter to a murderer.
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