Nuh sipihr 4: The Fourth Sphere.

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Admonitions and precepts for kings, chiefs, soldiers, and the common people.
"I have heard a story that, in Dehli, about five or six hundred years ago, there was a great rái, called Anangpál. At the entrance of his palace he had placed two lions, sculptured in stone. He fixed a bell by the side of the two lions, in order that those who sought justice might strike it, upon which the rái would order them to be summoned, would listen to their complaints, and render justice. One day, a crow came and sat on the bell and struck it; when the rái asked who the complainant was. It is a fact, not unknown, that bold crows will pick meat from between the teeth of lions. As stone lions cannot hunt for their prey, where could the crow obtain its usual sustenance? As the rái was satisfied that the crow justly complained of hunger, having come to sit by his stone lions, he gave orders that some goats and sheep should be killed, on which the crow might feed himself for some days."