The Stork arose, went to her friend, and said:
"My friend, what thou toldest me yesterday is excellent: I went and lay down by the side of the brook, and when the Toads saw me in the morning, they thought I was dead; they came, dragged me along, and when they had carried me far away, not knowing that I was wiser than they and thinking that I was dead, I opened mine eyes to look at them; but on seeing me open mine eyes, they all began to run away. Then I arose, pursued them, and when I had overtaken one, I took and swallowed it; and when I had overtaken a second I took and swallowed it; so by the time they would have reached home I had swallowed them all, and filled my bag with them. I brought them to my children, and when my children were around me, I threw the Toads before them out of the bag and they ate them, that their hunger was appeased."
She also thanked her friend, saying: "God bless thee; thou hast taught me an excellent device."
Thus the Stork and her friend devised a plan, and thus they were able to maintain their children while the Toads were sitting in their house.
So now, when the Toads are croaking in a brook, and they see any one come, they are all quite silent, supposing that a Stork is coming.
This fable of the Stork and Toads, which I heard, is now finished.
The Rat and the Toad
The Toad said to the Rat, "I can do more than thou."
The Rat replied to the Toad: "Thou dost not know how to run; having flung thyself anywhere thou stoppest there. This is all thy run; and wilt thou say that thou canst do more than I?"
When the Toad had heard the words of the Rat he said to him: "If, according to thy opinion, I cannot do more than thou, thou shalt see what I will begin to do to-morrow; and if thou beginnest and doest the same, without anything happening to thee, thou canst do more than I."