If I take the side of the man, the tiger may eat me some day," the buffalo thought to itself out loud it said, "Do you expect the tiger to be grateful? Don't be silly! That's asking too much! Look at me! As long as I gave my master sweet milk, he fed me cotton-seed and the finest fodder. Now that I am too old to give milk, I plod in circles all day and eat garbage! No one was grateful to me for what I did. So just accept your fate and let the tiger eat you. After all, that's what tigers do!