Slight bitterness can make dishes fresher and more delicious, greatly whetting the appetite.
When he had drawn out his knife and was whetting it on the door-step to kill the lamb, he noticed a little fish swimming backwards and forwards in the water, in front of the kitchen-sink and looking up at him.
A Wild Boar was whetting his tusks against a tree, when a Fox coming by, asked why he did so; "for," said he, "I see no reason for it; there is neither hunter nor hound in sight, nor any other danger that I can see, at hand.
Whenhe had drawn out his knife and was whetting it on the door-stepto kill the lamb, he noticed a little fish swimming backwardsand forwards in the water, in front of the kitchen-sink andlooking up at him.
"See, children, that is the way of the world," said the mother duck, whetting her beak, for she would have liked the eel's head herself.
