27 螃蟹和狐狸

The crab and the fox

A crab, having climbed up out of the sea on to the shore, was pursuing his solitary life. A starving fox spotted him and, as he had no a scrap of food to put between his teeth, he ran up and pounced on the crab to devour him. as he was about to be eaten, the crab cried out:

“I deserve this fate! I, who lived in the sea, had the folly to imagine I could live on the land!”

It is thus with men also: those who abandon their own occupations to mix themselves up in affairs which don't concern them meet with misfortune as a natural consequence.