Download or read book The Man, the Tiger, and the Snake (Classic Reprint) written by Ferdin Reyher and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Man, the Tiger, and the Snake There is an old Laos folktale of a hunter who rescued from death a man, a tiger, and a snake, each in turn naturally professing gratitude and in turn pledging aid should the hunter ever need it. Now, it so happened, that need befell the hunter, and not being Anglo-Saxon, and consequently not convulsed with squeamishness at the idea of cashing in on favors previously rendered, he went forth without hesitation and quoted to those whom he had befriended - provided, of course, that he understood classical Sanskrit, which he probably didn't - the following verse from the Hitopudesa: "That friend only is the true one who is by when trouble comes; Words are air; a deed talks louder than a solo played on drums." Interesting, the working out of that legend, inscribed in ancient temple books and told from immemorial times about the camp fires of obscure tribes in the neglected hinterland bordering India, Cochin-China, and Siam. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.