The Boy Hunting Locusts
A boy was hunting for locusts. He had caught a goodly number,
when he saw a Scorpion, and mistaking him for a locust, reached out his
hand to take him. The Scorpion, showing his sting, said: If you had but
touched me, my friend, you would have lost me, and all your locusts
too!"
The Cock and the Jewel
A Cock, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a precious
stone and exclaimed: "If your owner had found thee, and not I, he would
have
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