A lion used to prowl about a field in which four oxen used to dwell. Many a time the lion tried to attack the oxen; but whenever the lion came near the oxen turned their tails to one another, so that whichever way the lion approached the oxen, he was met by the horns of one of them. At last, however, the oxen fell a-quarrelling among themselves, and each went off to pasture alone in a separate corner of the field. Then the lion attacked them one by one and soon made an end of all four.
- Aesop's Fables
