狗儿和影子    伊索着 江铭辉译

图：狗看见水里自己的影子，以为是另一只狗，嘴里咬的肉有牠的二倍大。

A Dog, crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of flesh in his mouth, saw his own shadow in the water, and took it for that of another Dog, with a piece of meat double his own in size. He therefore let go his own, and fiercely attacked the other Dog, to get his larger piece from him. He thus lost both: that which he grasped at in the water, because it was a shadow; and his own, because the stream swept it away.