Tale

 1 Lion  |               The Lion and the Crane~THE Bodhisatta was at one
 2 Lion  |        of Himavanta as a white crane; now Brahmadatta was at
 3 Lion  |    suffering was terrible. The crane seeing him, as he was perched
 4 Lion  |     buffalo he had killed. The crane, thinking 'I will sound
 5 Lion  |      teeth."~Then in reply the crane said the two other verses:~"
 6 Lion  |     And having thus spoken the crane flew away.~~And when the
 7 Lion  |     the Traitor, but the white crane was I myself."~
 8 Crane |                      The Cruel Crane Outwitted~LONG ago the Bodisat
 9 Crane |        a good many fish. And a crane thought on seeing the fish:~"
10 Crane |     you into it," answered the crane.~"That a crane should take
11 Crane |    answered the crane.~"That a crane should take thought for
12 Crane |      afloat or ashore.~Him the crane took with him, let him go
13 Crane |    take us with you."~Then the crane took the old purblind fish
14 Crane |     left behind there; and the crane thought he would eat him
15 Crane |        with you, now!"~And the crane took him and showed him
16 Crane |       it, is it?" answered the crane. "Your dear little uncle,
17 Crane |     And so saying, he gave the crane's neck a grip with his claws,
18 Crane |    with the fear of death, the crane beseeched him, saying, "
19 Crane |        deceit,~But only as the Crane here from the Crab!"~
20 GeNote|      fable of the Lion and the Crane, which opens the present
21 GeNote|    Lion was Devadatta, and the Crane was I myself." Similarly,
22 GeNote|      sermons as EXEMPLA. Prof. Crane has. given a full account
23 StNote|      Notes~I. THE LION AND THE CRANE.~Source. - V. Fausboll,
24 StNote|     Phaedrus, i. 8 (" Wolf and Crane "), and Babrius, 94 ("Wolf
25 StNote|      selected The Wolf and the Crane as my typical example in
26 StNote|        whom comes our Wolf and Crane.~II. PRINCESS LABAM.~Source. -
27 StNote|    Jacques de Vitry (see Prof. Crane's edition, No., li.), who
28 StNote|        from it.~VII. THE CRUEL CRANE OUTWITTED.~Source. - The
29 StNote|       pp. 118 - 22), where the crane becomes "a great Paragone
30 StNote|     Batten's conception of the Crane and the Crab that of the
31 StNote| Jacques de Vitry, Exempla, ed. Crane, No. 196 (see notes, p.