Let Us Seperate!

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Once the Snake's Tail had a quarrel with the Snake's Head about who was to walk in front. The Head Said: 

"You cannot walk in front, because you have no eyes and no ears."

"Yes, but I have strength, I move you; if I want to, I can wind myself around a tree, and you cannot get off the spot."

The Head said:

"Let us separate!"

And the Tail tore himself loose from the Head, and crept on; but the moment he got away from the Head, he fell into a hole and was lost.


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