Aesop’s Fables: The Serpent and the Eagle 伊索寓言：老鷹和毒蛇

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Aesop’s Fables: The Serpent and the Eagle

伊索寓言：老鷹和毒蛇

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The Serpent and the Eagle

 

 

  An Eagle swooped down upon a Serpent and seized it in his talons with the intention of carrying it off and devouring it. But the

Serpent was too quick for him and had its coils round him in a moment; and then there ensued a life-and-death struggle between the two. A countryman, who was a witness of the encounter, came to the assistance of the eagle, and succeeded in freeing him from the Serpent and enabling him to escape. In revenge, the Serpent spat some of his

poison into the man's drinking-horn. Heated with his exertions, the man was about to slake his thirst with a draught from the horn, when

the Eagle knocked it out of his hand, and spilled its contents upon the ground.

 

 

        "One good turn deserves another."

 

1q What 2 animals are in the story? 

Ans= the serpent/snake, the eagle

2q What did the eagle do with the serpent/snake? 

Ans= it intended on eating it

3q Did the serpent die? 

Ans= no, he was too quick for the eagle

4q What happened to the eagle? 

Ans=the serpent/snake had its coils round

 him in a moment

5q What person witnessed this? 

Ans=the countryman

Bq.What's the moral? 

Ans= one good turn deserves another

 

fs= What does the moral mean? like in the ant and the dove/pigeon, a kindness is never wasted. The serpent spit poison onto the countryman's horn of water but the eagle repaid the countryman's saving his life by knocking the horn out of his hand. If he had drunk from  it, he'd have died. Similarly, do good deeds and be blessed.