A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled;

the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold

of the root of a wild vine and swung himself over the edge.

 

The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man

looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting

to eat him. Only the vine sustained him.

Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to

gnaw away the vine. The man then saw a luscious

strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he

plucked the strawberry with the other.

 

How sweet it tasted.