There they both stood , stretching themselves as high as they could , and holding each other tightly , so that they might not fall down . The Kioto frog turned his nose towards Osaka , and the Osaka frog turned his nose towards Kioto ; but the foolish things forgot that when they stood up their great eyes lay in the backs of their heads , and that though their noses might point to the places to which they wanted to go their eyes beheld the places from which they had come . ` Dear me ! ' cried the Osaka frog , ` Kioto is exactly like Osaka . It is certainly not worth such a long journey . I shall go home ! ' ` If I had had any idea that Osaka was only a copy of Kioto I should never have travelled all this way , ' exclaimed the frog from Kioto , and as he spoke he took his hands from his friend 's shoulders , and they both fell down on the grass . Then they took a polite farewell of each other , and set off for home again , and to the end of their lives they believed that Osaka and Kioto , which are as different to look at as two towns can be , were as like as two peas . -LRB- Japanische Marchen . -RRB- THE STORY OF A GAZELLE Once upon a time there lived a man who wasted all his money , and grew so poor that his only food was a few grains of corn , which he scratched like a fowl from out of a dust-heap . One day he was scratching as usual among a dust-heap in the street , hoping to find something for breakfast , when his eye fell upon a small silver coin , called an eighth , which he greedily snatched up . ` Now I can have a proper meal , ' he thought , and after drinking some water at a well he lay down and slept so long that it was sunrise before he woke again . Then he jumped up and returned to the dust-heap . ` For who knows , ' he said to himself , ` whether I may not have some good luck again . ' As he was walking down the road , he saw a man coming towards him , carrying a cage made of twigs . ` Hi ! you fellow ! ' called he , ` what have you got inside there ? ' ` Gazelles , ' replied the man . ` Bring them here , for I should like to see them . '
As he spoke , some men who were standing by began to laugh , saying to the man with the cage : ` You had better take care how you bargain with him , for he has nothing at all except what he picks up from a XXXXX , and if he ca n't feed himself , will he be able to feed a gazelle ? '
Gazelles Kioto Marchen Osaka day dust-heap eighth fall shoulders sunrise