The Dog and the Shadow
A DOG, crossing a bridge over a stream with
a piece of flesh in his mouth, saw his own
shadow in the water and took it for that of
another Dog, with a piece of meat double his
own in size. He immediately let go of his
own, and fiercely attacked the other Dog to
get his larger piece from him. He thus lost
both: that which he grasped at in the water,
because it was a shadow; and his own, because
the stream swept it away.
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