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The Hunter and The Man

(Aesop’s Fables)

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　While a hunter, who had caught a rabbit, was walking on the road, there was a man on horseback coming from the opposite direction.

　The man on horseback asked the hunter to show him the rabbit because he wanted to buy it.

　As soon as the man on horseback received the rabbit from the hunter, however, the man went off without paying.

　The hunter ran after him right away,

　but the man on horseback went too far away to catch up with, then the hunter said out loud with a little bit of hesitance,

”You don't need to run away. I'll give you the rabbit.”



　This story tells us that there are so many people who pretend to be willing to let go of their belongings

　in order to save their own faces when they are forced to let go of them.

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