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Fable · Story

The Crow and the Serpent

Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation)Ancient Greek fable tradition · Townsend translationStory
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A CROW in great want of food saw a Serpent asleep in a sunny nook, and flying down, greedily seized him. The Serpent, turning about, bit the Crow with a mortal wound. In the agony of death, the bird exclaimed: “O unhappy me! who have found in that which I deemed a happy windfall the source of my destruction.”