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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