Two Bulls lived in the same herd¹, and each aspiring² to be the leader and master, they finally engaged in a fierce battle. An old Frog, who sat on the bank of a stream near by, began to groan³ and to quake with fear. A thoughtless young Frog said to the old one: "Why need you be afraid? What is it to you that the Bulls fight for supremacy⁴?" "Do you not see," said the old Frog, "that one must defeat the other, and that the defeated Bull, being driven from the field, will be forced to stay in the marshes⁵, and will thus trample⁶ us to death?"

The poor and weak are often made to suffer for the follies⁷ of the great.