“What would the enemy do with me?”
The peasant replied:—
“Of course they would make you carry burdens.”
And the Horse rejoined:—
“Well, don’t I carry burdens for you? So then it is all the same to me whether I work for you or your enemies.”
XV
The Eagle and the Sow
An Eagle built a nest on a tree, and hatched out some eaglets. And a wild Sow brought her litter under the tree.
The Eagle used to fly off after her prey, and bring it back to her young. And the Sow rooted around the tree and hunted in the woods, and when night came she would bring her young something to eat.
And the Eagle and the Sow lived in neighborly fashion.
And a Grimalkin laid his plans to destroy the eaglets and the little sucking pigs. He went to the Eagle, and said:—
“Eagle, you had better not fly very far away. Beware of the Sow; she is planning an evil design. She is going to undermine the roots of the tree. You see she is rooting all the time.”
Then the Grimalkin went to the Sow and said:—
“Sow, you have not a good neighbor. Last evening I heard the Eagle saying to her eaglets: ‘My dear little eaglets, I am going to treat you to a