A Staraptor and a Ninetales formed an intimate friendship and decided to live near each other. The Staraptor built her nest in the branches of a tall tree, while the Ninetales crept into the underwood and there produced her young. Not long after they had agreed upon this plan, the Staraptor, being in want of provision for her young ones, swooped down while the Ninetales was out, seized upon one of the little cubs, and feasted herself and her brood. The Ninetales on her return, discovered what had happened, but was less grieved for the death of her young than for her inability to avenge them. A just retribution, however, quickly fell upon the Staraptor. While hovering near an altar, on which some villagers were sacrificing a goat, she suddenly seized a piece of the flesh, and carried it, along with a burning cinder, to her nest. A strong breeze soon fanned the spark into a flame, and the Starlys, as yet unfledged and helpless, were roasted in their nest and dropped down dead at the bottom of the tree. There, in the sight of the Staraptor, the Ninetales gobbled them up.
Moral: God is the ultimate judge.