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Title: The Crab And Its Mother Author: Aesop (author of Aesop's Fables) [More Titles by Aesop (author of Aesop's Fables)] A Crab said to her son: "Why do you walk so one-sided, my child? It is far more becoming to go straight forward." The young Crab replied: "Quite true, dear mother; and if you will show me the straight way, I will promise to walk in it." The mother tried in vain, and submitted without remonstrance to the reproof of her child. Example is more powerful than precept. [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |