Three Fish The Half-intelligent Fish
The half-intelligent fish thought, "my guide is gone. I
should have gone with him, but I didn't, and now I've
lost my chance to escape. I wish that I had gone with
him" so the half-intelligent fish mourned the absence of
his guide for a while, and then thought to himself, "what
can I do to save myself from these men and their nets?
perhaps if I pretend to be dead! I'll belly up on the
surface and float like a weed floats, just giving myself
totally to the water. To die before I die" so he did that
and so he bobbed up and down, helpless, within the arm's
reach of the fisherman. "Look at this! the biggest fish
of all is dead." One of the men lifted him up by the
tail, spat on him, and threw him up on the ground. He
rolled over and over and slid secretly near the water,
and then, back in.