Fable
The Two Goats
Two Goats, frisking gayly on the rocky steeps
of a mountain valley, chanced to meet, one on each side of a deep chasm through
which poured a mighty mountain torrent. The trunk of a fallen tree formed the
only means of crossing the chasm, and on this not even two squirrels could have
passed each other in safety. The narrow path would have made the bravest
tremble. Not so our Goats. Their pride would not permit either to stand aside
for the other.
One
set her foot on the log. The other did likewise. In the middle they met horn to
horn. Neither would give way, and so they both fell, to be swept away by the
roaring torrent below.
Moral
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It is better to yield than to come to misfortune through stubbornness.
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