THE DOG AND HIS SHADOW

THE DOG AND HIS SHADOW

The Story:   A dog was once running away with a large piece of meat in his mouth. He had stolen it from a butcher’s shop. Soon he came to a stream with a wooden bridge over it. He looked down by chance, and saw his own reflection in its clear water. He took it for another dog, with a larger piece of meat in his mouth. He could not bear the sight. He jumped down into the stream in order to snatch it. But the moment he opened his mouth, his own piece of meat fell down and sank to the bottom. He lost his own, and he did not get the other. He saw rightly punished for his greediness

                        Moral:   Do not be greedy