I thought of Marsyas, whom the god flayed because he had dared to rival him in song.
But one day it found the skin of a sheep that had been flayed and thrown aside, so it put it on over its own pelt and strolled down among the sheep.
On one occasion,invited to a contest by the human musician Marsyas,he won and then flayed him to death for his pride.
" "It was certainly well paid for then," said Great Claus; and he ran home to his house, seized a hatchet, and knocked all his four horses on the head, flayed off their skins, and took them to the town to sell.
