The Elephant said:
"Can I be pulled out by a tail?"
But the Jackal said to him:
"Why, then, do you command us to do what is impossible? Did we not drive away our first king for telling us to do what could not be done?"
When the Elephant died in the swamp the Jackals came and ate him up.
THE HERON, THE FISHES, AND THE CRAB
A Heron was living near a pond. She grew old, and had no strength left with which to catch the fish. She began to contrive how to live by cunning. So she said to the Fishes:
"You Fishes do not know that a calamity is in store for you: I have heard the people say that they are going to let off the pond, and catch every one of you. I know of a nice little pond back of the mountain. I should like to help you, but I am old, and it is hard for me to fly."
The Fishes begged the Heron to help them. So the Heron said: