The Mischievous Enforcer
July 28, 2010, by Homme De Sept-Iles
adapted from Aesop’s fables
An Enforcer used to run up quietly to the heels of everyone he met, and to bite them without notice. His master suspended a bell about his neck so that the Enforcer might give notice of his presence wherever he went. Thinking it a mark of distinction, the Enforcer grew proud of his bell and went tinkling it all over the marketplace.
One day an old Red Wing said to him: “Why do you make such an exhibition of yourself? That bell that you carry is not, believe me, any order of merit, but on the contrary a mark of disgrace, a public notice to all men to avoid you as an ill-mannered thug.”
Moral: Notoriety is often mistaken for fame
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