A serpent and a crab were staying in the same place. The crab behaved towards the serpent with complete simplicity and goodwill; but the serpent was always sly and perverse. The crab kept exhorting him to conduct himself towards him with uprightness and to copy his own way: it was of no avail. So, indignant, he watched for the moment when the serpent was sleeping, seized him by the throat, and killed him. Seeing him stretched out dead, he said, "Hey, comrade, it is not now, when you are dead, that you should have been straight, but when I was urging you to it: then you would not have been put to death."
Those who during their lives are wicked towards their friends and do them a service after their death.Moral
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