The Dog and the Wolf

Kare da Kerkeci yana ɗaya daga cikin Tatsuniyoyi na Aesop, wanda aka lasafta shi da lamba 346 a cikin Perry Index .  Ya shahara tun zamanin da a matsayin darasi na yadda bai kamata a musanya 'yanci don jin daɗi ko riba ta kuɗi ba. Wani tatsuniya daban mai irin ɗabi'ar da ta shafi dabbobi daban-daban ba a san ta sosai ba.

 'Yanci yana da daɗi 
Kerkeci mai yunwa ya haɗu da wani kare mai kyau kuma ya yaba masa saboda kyawunsa. Karen ya bayyana rayuwarsa ta jin daɗi kuma ya gayyaci kerkeci ya zo tare da shi. Yayin da suke tafiya, kerkeci ya tambaya dalilin da yasa gashin wuyan kare ya lalace. Ya amsa cewa abin wuyan da yake sawa a gida ne ya jawo hakan. Sai kerkeci ya bar shi, yana mai cewa cikakken ciki diyya ce mara kyau ga rashin 'yanci.

Cewa tatsuniya ta samo asali ne tun kafin zamanin Aesop ta hanyar wani layi guda da ya tsira daga waƙar Archilochos inda aka yi tambayar 'me ya sa ƙurar wuyansa ta yi rauni haka'.  Ana tsammanin wannan yana nufin wani sigar farko ta tatsuniya, wanda aka tabbatar da shi sosai a cikin majiyoyin Girka na baya, gami da tarin Babrius, da kuma a cikin tarin Latin na Phaedrus . Tatsuniya kuma sananne ce a zamanin Tsakiya, an haɗa ta a cikin tarin William Caxton, kuma an sanya ta a cikin taken waƙar Neo-Latin ta Hieronymus Osius .  A cikin sake ba da labarin William Somervile, an tsawaita ɗabi'a zuwa wani sabon salo na 'yancin kai na Burtaniya.  Duk da haka, "aikace-aikacen" a cikin littafin Thomas Bewick mai suna The Fables of Aesop (1818), ya lura da kyau cewa "'yanci a cikin yanayin al'umma ba ya nufin yin duk abin da muke so" saboda haka "dole ne a bar wani ɓangare na 'yancin mutum ɗaya don amfanin gaba ɗaya". 

Labarin ya kuma zama jigon ɗaya daga cikin Tatsuniyoyi na La Fontaine ( Le loup et le chien, I.5), inda Jagora Wolf, bayan ya fahimci cewa dole ne a yi watsi da shi, "ya fara gudu kuma har yanzu yana gudu".  A zamanin yau, an saita rubutun don piano da babban murya ta mawakiyar Faransa Isabelle Aboulker . 

 Dabbar daji da dabbar kaya 
Wani karin magana mai kama da Ahiqar ta bayyana a cikin wani takarda ta Aramaic tun daga ƙarni na 6 kafin haihuwar Annabi Isa (AS): Wata rana wani mutum ya ce wa mai kama da jaki, "Bari in hau kanki, zan kula da ke..." in ji jaki mai kama da jaki, "Ka kula da abincinka da abincinka, kada in ga hawanka ."  Tunda mai kama da jaki dabba ce ta Asiya, yana nuna cewa wannan yanki wataƙila shine asalin tatsuniyar da aka rubuta a matsayin 183 a cikin Perry Index. A cikin wannan jaki mai kama da jaki da farko yana taya wa dabbar da ke kiwo murna amma daga ƙarshe yana godiya da 'yancinsa bayan ganin ɗayan ana tuƙa shi a ƙarƙashin kaya.  Wani sigar 'Kiristanci' daga baya  yanzu an ƙidaya shi azaman tatsuniyar mai zaman kanta 411 a cikin Perry Index. A can mai kama da jaki yana yi wa jaki ba'a, sai zaki ya cinye shi tunda ba mutum ne ke kare shi ba. Robert Anderson, The Poets of Great Britain, Vol. 8, pp. 514–515

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