The Sick Canadien

January 16, 2012, by Homme de Sept-Îles

adapted from Aesop’s Fables

A Canadien had come to the end of his days and lay sick unto death at the mouth of his cave, gasping for breath. The NHL animals, his subjects, came round him and drew nearer as he grew more and more helpless. When they saw him on the point of death they thought to themselves: “Now is the time to pay off old grudges.” So the Panther came up and tore at him with his fangs; then a Penguin gored him with his beak; still the Canadien lay helpless before them: so the Coyote, feeling quite safe from danger, came up, and turning his tail to the Canadien kicked up his heels into his face. “This is a double death,” growled the Canadien.

Moral: Only cowards insult dying majesty.