On a summer day, when the great heat induced a general thirst among the beasts, a lion and boar came at the same moment to a small well to drink. They fiercely disputed which of them should drink
First, and were soon engaged in the agonies of a mortal combat when they stopped suddenly to catch their breath for a fiercer renewal of the fight , they saw some Vultures waiting in the distance To feast on the one that should fall first of crows or vultures