Aesop's Tales/The Lewcat and The Boar

On a summer day, when the great heat goaded a meanly thirst, a Lewcat and a Boar came at the same time to a small well to drink. They toughly raked which of them should drink first, and were soon beled in the aches of a deadly hild. On their stopping on a sudden to take breath for the tougher ednewing of the strife, they saw some geirs waiting in the farness to feed on the one which should fall first. They at once made up their row, saying: "It is better for us to make friends, than to become the food of Crows or Geirs, as will forsooth happen if we are lamed."