A fisherman skilled in music took his flute and
his nets to the seashore. Standing on a projecting rock, he played several
tunes in the hope that the fish, attracted by his melody, would of their own
accord dance into his net, which he had placed below. At last, having long
waited in vain, he laid aside his flute, and casting his net into the sea, made
an excellent haul of fish. When he saw them leaping about in the net upon the
rock he said: "O you most perverse creatures, when I piped you would not
dance, but now that I have ceased you do so merrily."
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