The Scorpion and the Tortoise

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A tortoise and scorpion had contracted a great One day these inseparable companions, finding themselves obliged to change their habitation, traveled together; but in their meeting with a large and deep river, the scorpion making a stop, said to the tortoise: "My dear friend, you are well provided for what we see before us, but how shall I get over this water?" "Never trouble yourself, my dear friend, for that, " replied the Tortoise, "I will carry you upon my back secure from all danger." On this, the scorpion, without hesitation, got upon the back of the tortoise, who immediately took water and began to swim. But he had hardly got half way across the river, when he heard a terrible rumbling upon his back, which made him ask the scorpion what he was doing. "Doing!" replied the scorpion, "why, I am "Oh, ungrateful wretch, "cried the tortoise, "wouldst thou, at a time when I am giving thee such a demonstration of my friendship, wouldst thou at such a time,pierce with thy venomous sting, the defense that Nature has given me, and take away my life? It is well, however, I have it in my power both to save myself and reward thee as thou deservest. " So saying, he sunk his back to some depth under water, threw off the scorpion, and left him to pay with his life for his monstrous ingratitude.  

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when 来自二年级下学期	什么时候
why 来自三年级下学期	为什么
his 来自五年级上学期	他的
half 来自二年级下学期	一半
their 来自五年级上学期	他们的
these 来自五年级上学期	这些
before 来自五年级下学期	之前
from 来自二年级上学期	从
time 来自二年级下学期	时间
under 来自一年级下学期	在下面

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