Jataka Dabbhapuppha Otters

tale:jataka_dabbhapuppha_otters

Two otters quarrel over a great fish they have caught together, one having seized the head, the other the tail. They ask a passing jackal to divide it; he gravely awards the head to one and the tail to the other — and takes the fat middle as his judge's fee, trotting off to feed his family. Moral: when the greedy will not share, the arbiter eats the best of it. — Jataka tale