The animals were deliberating on the choice of a king. The camel and the elephant put themselves forward and vied for votes, hoping to be preferred to the others thanks to their great size and strength. But the monkey declared them both unfit to reign: "the camel," he said, "because he shows no anger against wrongdoers, and the elephant, because there is a risk that a piglet, an animal he is afraid of, might come and attack us."
A small cause sometimes bars the way to high office.Moral
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