THE TIGER CALLS
There is an ancient folk-tale about a tiger that was brought up with a herd of goats. From the day his eyes opened, all he saw was a goat’s life so it became his style of life too. The tiger munched grass with the rest, butted heads with the younger goats for recreation, and learned to bleat in an odd sort of way a sound that resembled, so he thought, the goat’s voice. Once in a while there was a nagging voice inside him that said, “You don’t belong to this life!” But always he put it aside as a fantasy, some disturbing intrusion from the world of dreams. If this didn’t satisfy him, he just marked it off as the discontent that always hovers around the edges of any life style. So he, a tiger, chose to stay with a goat’s way of life because he believed that was the way life had to be. Then one day a tiger…
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