Aesop's Fables
A
MAN committed a
murder, and was pursued by the
relations of the man whom he murdered. On his reaching the river
Nile he saw a
Lion on its bank and being fearfully afraid, climbed up a
tree. He found a
serpent in the upper branches of the tree, and again being greatly
alarmed, he threw himself into the river, where a
crocodile caught him and ate him. Thus the
earth, the
air, and the
water alike refused shelter to a murderer.