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Title: The Sick Kite Author: Aesop (author of Aesop's Fables) [More Titles by Aesop (author of Aesop's Fables)] A Kite, sick unto death, said to his mother: "O Mother! do not mourn, but at once invoke the gods that my life may be prolonged." She replied: "Alas! my son, which of the gods do you think will pity you? Is there one whom you have not outraged by filching from their very altars a part of the sacrifice which had been offered up to them?" We must make friends in prosperity, if we would have their help in adversity. [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |