A land rat, to his misfortune, struck up a friendship with a frog. Now the frog, who had wicked designs, tied the rat's foot to her own. And first they went on land to eat wheat; then they approached the edge of the pond. Then the frog dragged the rat down to the bottom, while she frolicked in the water with her croaking. And the wretched rat, swollen with water, was drowned; but he floated, tied to the frog's foot. A kite, on spotting him, carried him off in its talons, and the chained frog followed and served, she too, as the kite's dinner.
Even the dead may be avenged, for divine justice weighs punishment against wrongdoing.Moral
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