SQUIRREL AND LEOPARD
A young squirrel, bounding from branch to branch in a forest, missed its footing and fell upon a leopard. “I will eat you,” said the angry leopard, “unless you tell me why it is that you who seem so weak and frail are always bright and happy, while I who are so strong and feared by all the other creatures can get no real pleasure out of life.”
“Let me get on yonder bough and I will tell you,” answered the squirrel; and the leopard agreed. “Don’t you see,” continued the squirrel, “that you do not go the right way to work to get happiness? I go about my business injuring no one, and wishing evil to no one. I live on fruit and nuts, and sleep in peace. You, on the other hand, strike terror into all you meet; you slay the most innocent creatures and are full of oppression and ambition. No wonder, therefore, that when you do all in your power to render others unhappy you are unhappy yourself.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 27, 23 April 1927, Page 24 (Supplement)
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175SQUIRREL AND LEOPARD Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 27, 23 April 1927, Page 24 (Supplement)
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