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Special Week　Super Aesop

*** The Dog and the Shadow ***
It happened that a Dog had got a piece of meat and was carrying it home in his mouth to eat it in peace. Now on his way home he had to cross a plank lying across a running brook. As he crossed, he looked down and saw his own shadow reflected in the water beneath. Thinking it was another dog with another piece of meat, he made up his mind to have that also. So he made a snap at the shadow in the water, but as he opened his mouth the piece of meat fell out, dropped into the water and was never to be seen again.

Choose the moral that best matches the gist of the fable.
　(1) Let sleeping dogs lie.
　(2) Beware lest you love your image more than yourself.
◯(3) Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

*** The Man and the Serpent ***
A Countryman's son by accident trod upon the tail of a Serpent, which turned and bit him so that he died. The father in a rage got his axe, and pursuing the Serpent, cut off part of its tail. So the Serpent in revenge began stinging several of the Farmer's cattle and caused him severe loss. Well, the Farmer thought it best to make it up with the Serpent, and brought food and honey to the mouth of its lair, and said to it: "Let's forget and forgive; perhaps you were right to punish my son, and take vengeance on my cattle, but surely I was right in trying to revenge him; now that we are both satisfied why shouldn't we be friends again?"
"No, no," said the Serpent; "take away your gifts; you can never forget the death of your son, nor I the loss of my tail."

Choose the moral that best matches the gist of the fable.
　(1) Once bitten, twice shy.
◯(2) Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.
　(3) Like father, like son.




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