“Como Pedro por su casa”
Dícese de la persona que se mueve con desenvoltura
en un lugar que no le es propio. En ocasiones tiene un
significado peyorativo para referirse a un intruso cuya
actitud es impertinente, arrogante y excesiva. También
se usa cuando alguien tiene mucha confianza y se
comporta con toda naturalidad, saltándose a veces la
prudencia que se supone.
Se desconoce quien era el tal Pedro al que alude el dicho,
aunque algunos autores lo sitúan en Aragón donde existe
una versión que dice: “Entrase como Pedro por Huesca”,
que alude a Pedro I de Aragón (1070-1104), que en 1095
reanudó el sitio impuesto a Huesca por Sancho,
encontrando muy poca resistencia para tomar la ciudad.
Kim and Choi were traveling together.
A bear suddenly met them on the path.
Kim quickly climbed into a tree and hid.
Choi fell flat on the ground.
The bear sniffed Choi all over his body.
He held his breath and pretended to be dead.
The bear went away, because bears will not touch a dead
body.
Kim came down from the tree, and made a joke.
Kim asked Choi "what did the bear whisper in your ear?"
Choi frowned.
Trouble Tests
Your Friends
He said, "the bear told me
never to travel with a friend
who runs away when
danger comes".
A dog who wanted to sleep jumped into the manger of
an ox.
The dog felt very comfortable in the soft straw.
Soon the ox came home from working and wanted to eat
the straw.
The dog was very angry, barked at the ox and tried to bite
him.
At last the unhappy ox went away muttering:
"That dog can't eat straw!
The Dog in the Manger
Often people won't give others
what they can't enjoy themselves".
A cat fell in love with a handsome young man.
The cat asked Venus, the Goddess of Love, to change her into a
woman.
Venus agreed, and changed the cat into a beautiful woman.
The young man saw the cat-woman and fell in love.
He asked to marry her.
Later they were lying together in bed.
However, the goddess wanted to test if the cat-woman
had really changed her nature.
Venus put a mouse in the middle of the bedroom.
The cat-woman immediately forgot her lover and chased the mouse.
Venus was very disappointed.
True Nature Can't Be Hidden
She turned the beautiful woman back into a cat.
Mercury and The Carpenter
A poor Woodman was cutting down a tree near the edge of a
deep pool in the forest. It was late in the day and the Woodman
was tired. He had been working since sunrise and his strokes
were not so sure as they had been early that morning. Thus it
happened that the axe slipped and flew out of his hands into the
pool.
The Woodman was in despair. The axe was all he possessed with
which to make a living, and he had not money enough to buy a
new one. As he stood wringing his hands and weeping, the god
Mercury suddenly appeared and asked what the trouble was. The
Woodman told what had happened, and straightway the kind
Mercury dived into the pool. When he came up again he held a
wonderful golden axe.
“Is this your axe?” Mercury asked the Woodman.
“No,” answered the honest Woodman, “that is not my axe.”
Mercury laid the golden axe on the bank and sprang back into
the pool. This time he brought up an axe of silver, but the
Woodman declared again that his axe was just an ordinary one
with a wooden handle.
“Is this your axe?” Mercury asked the Woodman.
“No,” answered the honest Woodman, “that is not my axe.”
Mercury laid the golden axe on the bank and sprang back into
the pool.
This time he brought up an axe of silver, but the Woodman
declared again that his axe was just an ordinary one with a
wooden handle.
Mercury dived down for the third time, and when he came up
again he had the very axe that had been lost.
The poor Woodman was very glad that his axe had been found
and could not thank the kind god enough. Mercury was greatly
pleased with the Woodman’s honesty.
“I admire your honesty,” he said, “and as a reward you may have
all three axes, the gold and the silver as well as your own.”
The happy Woodman returned to his home with his treasures, and
soon the story of his good fortune was known to everybody in the
village. Now there were several Woodmen in the village who believed
that they could easily win the same good fortune. They hurried out into
the woods, one here, one there, and hiding their axes in the bushes,
pretended they had lost them. Then they wept and wailed and called
on Mercury to help them.
And indeed, Mercury did appear, first to this one, then to that. To each
one he showed an axe of gold, and each one eagerly claimed it to be
the one he had lost. But Mercury did not give them the golden axe. Oh
no! Instead he gave them each a hard whack over the head with it and
sent them home. And when they returned next day to look for their
own axes, they were nowhere to be found.
Moral
Honesty is the best policy.
A workman lost an axe. Mercury recovered
a gold and silver axe which the workman
refused. Mercury then recovered the real
axe and gave him the others.
Truth is the better strategy.
