A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to the edge of a cliff, he caught hold of the root of a large vine and swung himself down over the edge.
The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down far below him. There at the bottom of the cliff, another tiger was waiting. That tiger was watching him, waiting for him to fall so he could eat him.
Two mice, one white and one black, were gnawing at the vine's root.
The man saw a luscious strawberry growing near him, from the side of the cliff. Holding the vine tightly with one hand, he used the other and picked a strawberry.
How sweet the berry tasted!
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