Fable 288 - The Tail and the Rest of the Body of the Snake

One day, the snake’s tail developed pretensions to be the leader and led the advance. The remaining parts of the body of the snake said to it:
‘How can you lead us when you have no eyes or nose like other animals?’
But they could not persuade the tail, and ultimately common sense was defeated. The tail led the way, pulling blindly on the rest of
the body so that in the end the snake fell into a hole full of stones and bruised her backbone and her whole body. Then the
tail addressed the head, fawning and beseeching:
‘Save us, please, mistress, for I was in the wrong to enter into a quarrel with you.’

This fable confounds crafty and perverse men who rebel against their masters.