Chapter 38
During a severe winter, a farmer was trapped in his snowed farmhouse. When he found that he could not procure any food from outside, he began consuming his own sheep. As the hard weather continued, he began to eat his goats. And finally – for there was no break in the weather – he turned to the plow oxen. Thereupon, the dogs said to one another, “We’d better be off! If the master has no pity on the oxen, who carry the burden of the work around here, it’s highly unlikely that he’ll spare us.”
When the neighbor’s house is on fire, it is time to get out of your own.
