One day horse decides to go for a walk. He comes to a riverbank where he stops to survey the situation. A voice from below him calls out "Hello horse... would you be so kind as to give me a ride across this river?". Horse looks for a moment at the river and sees that its current is strong, perhaps too strong for him to make it across. Horse says to scorpion "Well now.. this river is pretty strong as it is scorpion and you will surely sting me anyway, so why would I give you a ride?". Scorpion stops and considers this. "Well I'll tell you what!" scorpion says to horse, "I'll give you my word I shall not sting you if you help me cross this river.". Horse contemplates this deeply for quite a while then decides to give scorpion a ride across the river. The currents were indeed the strongest that horse had ever felt, and as he lumbered across the river scorpion held on for dear life. Horse and scorpion reach the far bank of the river when scorpion lashes out with his stinger and stings horse. Horse looks down at scorpion "Why? Why did you sting me for I have only been kind to you scorpion and you'd promised you would not sting me if I was to bear you across the river?". Scorpion looks up at horse with his many eyes and replies "Well I'm a scorpion and that's just what I do".
