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The Lion and Three Bulls

Eliot/Jacobs Version

A Lion used to prowl about a field in which Four Oxen use to dwell. Many times he tried to attack them but whenever he came near they turned their tails to one another so that whichever way he approached them he was met by the horns of one of them. At last, however, the Oxen argued among themselves, and each went off to pasture alone in a separate corner of the field. The Lion then attacked them one by one and soon made an end of all four.

Townsend version

Three bulls for a long time pastured together. A Lion lay in ambush in the hope of making them his prey, but was afraid to attack them while they kept together. Having at last by guileful speeches succeeded in separating them, he attacked them without fear as they fed alone, and feasted on them one by one at his own leisure.

Union is strength.

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