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The Beaver

(Aesop’s Fables)

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　The beaver is an animal that lives in the pond.

　It is said that the beaver's male genital organ can be good medicine.

　Therefore humans chase after beavers to cut off their male genital organs when they find beavers.

　However, because beavers know why humans chase after them,

　although they try to get away from humans with all their force,

　they cut off their own male genital organs and throw them away once they realize that they cannot escape.

　That is how beavers save their own lives.



　Even for humans, when they are attacked for money,

　they sometimes give all the money they have to save themselves.

　Although it may be humiliating, it is necessary to surrender and run away in some cases.

　* It goes without saying that real beavers will never cut off their own male genital organs.

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