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The Bear And His Mate
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Author / Collector:
Epiphanius Wilson
Book:
Turkish Literature
Publisher:
P. F. Collier & Son, New York
Year:
1901
Country:
Turkey
License:
Public Domain (copyright expired)
Editor's Notes:
Traditional fables translated and edited by Epiphanious Wilson
marriage, domestic conflict, jealousy, foolishness, consequences
Subject:
The Bear And His Mate
A Bear, in struggling with his Mate, used his claws with such violence that he tore her eyes out. He was immediately seized with such sorrow that he bit off his own claws.
A short time afterward, he conversed with her in a friendly manner in his cave.
“My dear,” he remarked to her, “for your sake, I have sacrificed my weapons of war.”
“What good,” said she, “is that to me, now that I am blind, and deprived by you of my precious eyes?”
Repentance cannot repair an injury once inflicted.
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