10. The Dog And The Shadow

    A large dog had stolen a delicious piece of bony beef from the kitchen, and was running off with it as fast as he could, when he came to a stream bridged by a plank.  As he trotted across the plank, suddenly he saw a very strange thing.  Down in the clear quiet water was another dog, with another piece of beef!

    "Ho!" said Master Doggie to himself.  "What's this!  A dog with a piece of beef, down there!  And a much bigger piece than mine is!  I'll take it from him!"

    He opened his mouth to seize the beef from the dog in the water-- when low down plopped his own dinner with a loud splash!  The ripples cleared, and there, staring up out of the water, was the dog, with jaws as empty as his own!

    It had been his shadow that he had seen all the time-- and the shadow, too, of his piece of beef!