Aesop's Fables
A
MAN and a
Satyr once drank together in token of a bond of
alliance being formed between them. One very cold
wintry day, as they talked, the Man put his
fingers to his mouth and blew on them. When the Satyr asked the reason for this, he told him that he did it to warm his
hands because they were so cold. Later on in the day they sat down to
eat, and the food prepared was quite
scalding. The Man raised one of the dishes a little towards his mouth and blew in it. When the Satyr again
inquired the reason, he said that he did it to
cool the meat, which was too hot. "I can no longer consider you as a
friend," said the Satyr, "a fellow who with the same breath
blows hot and
cold."