The Fisherman Piping
A fisherman skilled in music took his flute and his nets to the seashore.
Standing on a projecting rock, he played several tunes in the hope
that the fish, attracted by his melody, would of their own accord
dance into his net, which he had placed below. At last, having long
waited in vain, he laid aside his flute, and casting his net into
the sea, made an excellent haul of fish. When he saw them leaping
about in the net upon the rock he said: "O you most perverse creatures,
when I piped you would not dance, but now that I have ceased you do
so merrily."
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