“You wanted the best places and would do no work unless the winds pushed and the clouds carried you. So we took you up high where we lived and had a happy time.
“Now you have forgotten all this. Who helped you up? Who made you pure?” But the snow did not answer.
Finally the snow said, “Yes, our family is from the rivers and seas. We had forgotten. If we had only thought, we should have been more grateful.”
The sun was judge, and he said, “We decide this case in favor of the wind and the clouds.” [[95]]
[1] This story was told to his people by that good man Mong-Fu-Tsi (Canton dialect), who lived about five hundred years later than Confucius. [↑]
THE FISH AND THE FLOWERS
魚花異味
