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Fable Five
The Guar and the Mudcrabs
he Guar were so tormented by the other creatures they did not know where to go.
²As soon as they saw a single beast approach them, off they dashed in terror.
³One day they saw a pack of Nix-hounds ranging about, and in a desperate panic all the Guar scuttled off towards the sea, determined to drown themselves rather than live in such a continual state of fear. ⁴But just as they got near the shoreline, a colony of Mudcrabs, frightened in their turn by the approach of the Guar, scuttled off, and threw themselves into the water.
⁵“Truly,” said one of the Guar, “things are not so bad as they seem. For there is always someone worse off than you.”