One day a HyÆna met a Goat by the way. He tells the Goat, “Before you move from this place you tell me three words which shall all be true, or I eat you.”

The Goat said, “You met me in this place. If you return, [and if] you reach the other HyÆnas and tell them, ‘I have met a Goat by the way, but I did not kill him,’ they will say, ‘You are telling a lie.’ ”

The HyÆna said, “It is true.”

The Goat said, “If I get out here myself, if I reach the other Goats at home, and I tell them, ‘I met a HyÆna by the way, but he did not kill me,’ they will say, ‘You are telling a lie.’ ”

The HyÆna said, “It is true.”

He said to him, “The third one is:—If you see us two talking about this matter you are not hungry.”

Then the HyÆna said, “Pass, and go your way. I am not hungry; if I were hungry we should not be here talking about it.”