Fable
The Fox & the Hedgehog
A Fox, swimming across a river, was barely
able to reach the bank, where he lay bruised and exhausted from his struggle
with the swift current. Soon a swarm of blood-sucking flies settled on him; but
he lay quietly, still too weak to run away from them.
A
Hedgehog happened by. "Let me drive the flies away," he said kindly.
"No,
no!" exclaimed the Fox, "do not disturb them! They have taken all
they can hold. If you drive them away, another greedy swarm will come and take
the little blood I have left."
Moral
- Better to bear a lesser evil than to risk a greater in
removing it.
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