. Jataka tales . honoured, sir, be settled fair by you. The jackal hearing them, said, declaring his ownstrength: Ive arbitrated many a case and done it peacefully: Let your contention, honoured sirs, be settled fair by me. Having spoken that stanza, and making the division, hespoke this stanza: Tail, Anutiracari; Gambhiracari, head: The middle to the arbiter will properly be paid. So having divided the fish, he said, You eat head andtail without quarrelling, and seizing the middle portionin his mouth he ran away before their eyes. They satdowncast, as if they had lost a thousand pieces, and s
. Jataka tales . honoured, sir, be settled fair by you. The jackal hearing them, said, declaring his ownstrength: Ive arbitrated many a case and done it peacefully: Let your contention, honoured sirs, be settled fair by me. Having spoken that stanza, and making the division, hespoke this stanza: Tail, Anutiracari; Gambhiracari, head: The middle to the arbiter will properly be paid. So having divided the fish, he said, You eat head andtail without quarrelling, and seizing the middle portionin his mouth he ran away before their eyes. They satdowncast, as if they had lost a thousand pieces, and spokethe sixth stanza: But for our strife, it would have long- sufficed us without fail:But now the jackal takes the fish, and leaves us head and tail. The jackal was pleased and thinking Now I will givemy wife rohita fish to eat, he went to her. She saw himcoming and saluting him spoke a stanza: Even as a king is glad to join a kingdom to his rule,So I am glad to see my lord to-day with his mouth full. ILATE VII. THE OTTERS AND THE JACKAL (Jfitaku 400, /«r> wurx, />. :!7) THE BRAHMIN AND THE SNAKE 269 Then she asked him about the means of attainment,speaking a stanza: How, being1 of the land, have you from water caught a fish?How did you do the feat, my lord? pray answer to my wish. The jackal, explaining the means to her, spoke thenext stanza: By strife it is their weakness comes, by strife their means decay:By strife the otters lost their prize: Mayavi, eat the prey. Tib. T. xxxiv. Related are P. (T.) in. 4, (B.) in. 2, where a partridge and harego to a cat to decide their dispute as to the ownership of a dwelling. The catpretends to be deaf, asks them to come near, and kills them both. La Fontaineix. 9, LHmtre et les Plaideurs is the closest parallel, but it has not been tracedfurther back than Boileau (Ep. n.), who learnt it from his father in his youth. Thelatter is said to have got it from an old Italian comedy. Very close also is 49, The litigious Cats (wh
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