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In his French version of the story, La Fontaine gave it the title Le chien qui lâche sa proie pour l'ombre (The dog who relinquished his prey for its shadow VI.17), [10] where ombre has the same ambiguity of meaning. Thereafter, and especially during the 19th century, the English preference was to use the word shadow in the fable's title.
The story was also made the subject of one of La Fontaine's Fables (Le loup et le chien, I.5), in which Master Wolf, on learning the forfeit necessary, "took to its heels and is running yet". [6] In modern times the text has been set for piano and high voice by the French composer Isabelle Aboulker .
In the Greek story, a cock and a dog go on a journey together. At night, the cock roosts in a tree while the dog curls up at its roots. When the cock crowed in the morning, it attracted a fox that made friendly overtures and tried to lure the bird down. The cock agrees, telling it to ask the porter to open the door so that it can come out.
The story begins from the moment the labor camp is closed and demolished, and includes the dog's best reminiscences of its past. After the labor camp is dismantled, Ruslan's handler chases the dog away, having no heart to shoot him. Many other guard dogs of the camp had the same luck. Over time most of them somehow found their ways in "civil" life, but Ruslan cannot forget his du
I can imagine that there are also variations in whether the dog is a "he", a "she" or an "it". I see that there's still a bit of inconsistency: the page title is "The Dog and Its Reflection" but the lead has it as "The Dog and its Reflection". And the Commons link uses "The Dog and the Bone". So it still needs a bit of sorting out. Furthermore ...
“Dogs that are adaptable and comfortable in any environment are often a reflection of an owner that gets out and about a lot and spends a lot of time away from home,” Zakar tells Parade ...
[10] A variant story attributed to Aesop exists in Greek sources. This is the fable of the cock and the cat, which is separately numbered 16 in the Perry Index. [11] Seeking a reasonable pretext to kill the cock, the cat accuses it of waking people early in the morning and then of incest with its sisters and daughters.
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