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<h2>THE LABOURER AND THE SNAKE</h2>
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<p>A Labourer's little son was bitten by a Snake and died of the
wound. The father was beside himself with grief, and in his anger
against the Snake he caught up an axe and went and stood close to
the Snake's hole, and watched for a chance of killing it. Presently
the Snake came out, and the man aimed a blow at it, but only
succeeded in cutting off the tip of its tail before it wriggled in
again. He then tried to get it to come out a second time,
pretending that he wished to make up the quarrel. But the Snake
said, "I can never be your friend because of my lost tail, nor you
mine because of your lost child."</p>
<p class="adage">Injuries are never forgotten in the presence of
those who caused them.</p>
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