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A louse has lived unnoticed in a king's bed for years by moving very slowly. A visiting bug cannot wait for his turn.
A king's pet monkey fans him while he sleeps. A fly keeps settling on the royal chest, and the monkey reaches for a sword.
A merchant says mice ate the heavy iron scales left in his safekeeping. The owner agrees that the world is impermanent — and then asks to borrow his son.
A crab kindly explains to the herons how to get rid of the snake that eats their chicks. The cure turns out to be worse than the snake.
Two partners bury their earnings under a tree. One digs them up alone at night — and then produces a witness who can speak from inside the trunk.
From a warm dry nest in the rain, a sparrow asks the soaking monkey below why he never got around to building himself a house.