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The Fox and The Blackberry Shrub

A fox once jumped upon a fence, but he slipped. When he was about to fall down however, he got hold of a blackberry shrub in order to break his fall. But the thorns of the shrub injured his paws so that the blood came running out. And while he was whining with pain he said to the shrub: "Ouch! I resorted to you, because I thought you would help me, but you only made my position worse."

"But it was a bad mistake of you," said the blackberry shrub, "to hold on to me; you, who is used to holding on to everybody!"

This fable illustrates that also in real life there are many fools who demand help of those whose nature it is to do evil.

Translation © Lazyfox, 1998

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