[Aesop's Fables] The Dog and the Shadow

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     A DOG, crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of flesh  in  his
mouth, saw his own shadow in the water and took it  for  that  of  another
Dog, with a piece of meat double his own in size. He immediately let go of
his own, and fiercely attacked the other Dog to get his larger piece  from
him. He thus lost both: that which he grasped at in the water, because  it
was a shadow; and his own, because the stream swept it away.