The Mouse and the Bull 
      
      
      A BULL was bitten by a Mouse and, angered by the wound, tried to
    capture him.  But the Mouse reached his hole in safety.  Though
    the Bull dug into the walls with his horns, he tired before he
    could rout out the Mouse, and crouching down, went to sleep
    outside the hole.  The Mouse peeped out, crept furtively up his
    flank, and again biting him, retreated to his hole.  The Bull
    rising up, and not knowing what to do, was sadly perplexed.  At
    which the Mouse said, "The great do not always prevail.  There
    are times when the small and lowly are the strongest to do
    mischief."  
    


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