늑대와 두루미(영문 대조)

El lobo y la grulla.

A un lobo que comía un hueso, se le atragantó el hueso en la garganta, y corría por todas partes en busca de auxilio.

Encontró en su correr a una grulla y le pidió que le salvara de aquella situación, y que enseguida le pagaría por ello. Aceptó la grulla e introdujo su cabeza en la boca del lobo, sacando de la garganta el hueso atravesado. Pidió entonces lacancelación de la paga convenida.

-- Oye amiga -- dijo el lobo -- No crees que es suficiente paga con haber sacado tu cabeza sana y salva de mi boca?

Nunca hagas favores a malvados, traficantes o corruptos, pues mucha paga tendrías si te dejan sano y salvo.

 

The Wolf and the Crane

A Wolf had been gorging on an animal he had killed, when suddenly a small bone in the meat stuck in his throat and he could not swallow it. He soon felt terrible pain in his throat, and ran up and down groaning and groaning and seeking for something to relieve the pain.

He tried to induce every one he met to remove the bone.

“I would give anything,” said he, “if you would take itout.”

At last the Crane agreed to try, and told the Wolf to lie on his side and open his jaws as wide as he could.

Then the Crane put its long neck down the Wolf’s throat, and with its beak loosened the bone, till at last it got it out.

“Will you kindly give me the reward you promised?” said the Crane. The Wolf grinned and showed his teeth and said: “Be content. You have put your head inside a Wolf’s mouth and taken it out again in safety; that ought to be reward enough for you.”

Gratitude and greed go not together?