Lion leaves sleeping hare to follow the shepherd. Loses both victims

Motif

Lion leaves sleeping hare to follow the shepherd. Loses both victims.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Choices. · Present values chosen. · Present values preferred to future. · view the constellation · filed as J321.3

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

general Wienert FFC LVI 51 (ET 105), 106 (ST 180)
general Halm Aesop No. 254.

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Filed under Present possessions preferred to future possibilities.

Filed beside it

A bird in the hand foolishly given away in hope of greater gain Little fish in the net kept rather than wait for uncertainty of greater catch Present possessions preferred to future

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