Home > Authors Index > Browse all available works of Aesop (author of Aesop\'s Fables) > Text of Wolf And The Horse
A short story by Aesop (author of Aesop's Fables) |
||
The Wolf And The Horse |
||
________________________________________________
Title: The Wolf And The Horse Author: Aesop (author of Aesop's Fables) [More Titles by Aesop (author of Aesop's Fables)] A Wolf coming out of a field of oats met with a Horse, and thus addressed him: "I would advise you to go into that field. It is full of capital oats, which I have left untouched for you, as you are a friend the very sound of whose teeth it will be a pleasure to me to hear." The Horse replied: "If oats had been the food for wolves, you would never have indulged your ears at the cost of your belly." Men of evil reputation, when they perform a good deed, fail to get credit for it. [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |