The Seller of Images

　　An Eagle swooped1 down upon a Serpent and seized it in his talons

　　with the intention of carrying it off and devouring2 it. But the

　　Serpent was too quick for him and had its coils round him in a moment;

　　and then there ensued a life-and-death struggle between the two. A

　　countryman, who was a witness of the encounter, came to the assistance

　　of the eagle, and succeeded in freeing him from the Serpent and

　　enabling him to escape. In revenge, the Serpent spat3 some of his

　　poison into the man's drinking-horn. Heated with his exertions4, the

　　man was about to slake5 his thirst with a draught6 from the horn, when

　　the Eagle knocked it out of his hand, and spilled its contents upon

　　the ground.

　　"One good turn deserves another."