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The Huntsman and the Fisherman

(Aesop’s Fables)

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　A huntsman hunted an animal.

　A fisherman caught a basket full of fish.

　The two came across each other on the way home.

　The huntsman preferred the fish,

　and the fisherman preferred the animal from the mountain. So they exchanged what they had caught.

　From then on, they kept pleasing themselves by exchanging each other’s catch.

　Then one day, a man said to the two,

“You may prefer something unusual for now, but soon you’ll miss what you had before.”



　Even the most unusual thing can be boring once you’ve got used to it.

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