Jack T. Chakhesang
[dropcap]A[/dropcap] fox had fallen into a well and could not find any means to escape. Eventually, a thirsty goat appeared, and upon noticing the fox, he asked him whether the water was good and plentiful.
Pretending that his situation was not precarious, the fox replied, “Come down my friend. The water is so good that I can’t drink enough of it. Besides. There is such an abundance supply that it can’t be exhausted.”When he heard this, the goat did not waste any time and promptly leaply leapt into the well. After he quenched his thirst, the fox informed him of their predicament and suggested a scheme for their escape.
“If you will place your forefeet upon the wall and bend your head, I’ll run up your back and escape. Then I’ll help you out.”
The goat readily agreed to this proposal, and the fox took advantage of his friend’s back ands horns and nimbly propelled himself out of the well. Following his escape, hr made off as fast as he could, while the goat yelled and reproached him for breaking their bargain. Buit the fox turned around and coolly remarked to the poor deluded goat, “If you had half as much as you have beard, you would never have gone down the well before making sure there was a way up. I’m sorry that I can’t stay with you any longer, but I have some business that needs my attention.
The eagle and the beetle
Pursued by an eagle, a hare took refuge in the nest of a beetle, whom he begged to save him. The beetle, felt compassion for the hare and pleaded with the eagle not to kill the poor creature. In the name of the mighty Jupiter, the beetle requested that the eagle respect her intercession and the laws of hospitality even though he was nothing but a tiny insect. However, the eagle became furious and gave the beetle a flap with his wing. In cold blood he seized the hare with his enormous talons and devoured him right on the spot.
When the eagle flew away, the beetle followed him to find out where his nest was. Then he crawled in and rolled the eagle’s eggs out, one by one, breaking them in the process. Grieved and enraged to think that anyone would do such a thing, the eagle built his next nest in a higher place. But there, too, the beetle managed to get to it and destroyed the eggs as he had done before.
The eagle was now at a loss as to what to do. So he flew up to Jupiter, his lord and king, and placed the third brood of eggs as a sacred deposit in his lap, begging him to guard them for him. However, the beetle made a little ball of dirt and flew up with it to Jupiter and dropped it on his lap.
When Jupiter saw the dirt, he stood up right away to shake it off, forgetting the eggs, which were again broken as they rolled off his lap. The beetle now informed Jupiter that he had done this to gain revenge on the eagle, who had wronged him but had acted with impiety toward Jove himself.
Therefore, when the eagle returned, Jupiter told him that the beetle was the wronged party and that his complaint was without justification.
Ne4vertheless, Jupiter did not want the race of eagles to be humiliated, so he advised the beetle to arrange a peaceful settlement with him. But the beetle would not agree to this, and Jupiter was compelled to change the beetle’s breeding time to another season when there are no beetles to be seen.
So it all means that no matter how powerful one’s position may be, there is nothing that can prevent the oppressor in the end from the vengeance of the oppressed.
