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The Bear and The Fox

A Bear was bragging about how kind he was saying he would not even touch a man's dead body. A Fox, on hearing this, said with a smile: "It would be better if you would eat the dead instead of the living!"

Townsend version

A Bear boasted very much of his philanthropy, saying that of all animals he was the most tender in his regard for man, for he had such respect for him that he would not even touch his dead body. A Fox hearing these words said with a smile to the Bear, "Oh! that you would eat the dead and not the living."

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