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The fowler and the stork

(Aesop’s Fables)

Translation　ちいさな翻訳屋さん

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　The fowler prepared a snare to catch cranes and he was keep watching from distance.

　Then a stork was trapped among the cranes.

　The fowler ran to the snare and he captured the stork and the cranes.

“Please! Let me go, sir!”

　The stork begged to the fowler.

“I am not a crane. I am so far from bothering you. Instead, I shall be useful in preying snakes, lizards, or other reptile.”

　But the fowler said to him,

　“It doesn’t matter if you are good or bad, but I caught you among the bad, and you must receive punishment with your company. ”

“No way…”


　The story shows to stay away from bad companies,

　otherwise you may be treated as one of the bad and you will receive the same punishment as the poor stork.

The end

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