28.The Bear and the Hare

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 hare who heard these words, said with a smile to the bear,

“If only you would eat the dead and not the living.”

A fault confessed is half redressed.

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