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Title: The Crow And The Serpent Author: Aesop (author of Aesop's Fables) [More Titles by Aesop (author of Aesop's Fables)] 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. The Crow in the agony of death exclaimed: "O unhappy me! who have found in that which I deemed a most happy windfall the source of my certain destruction." What seem to be blessings are not always so. [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |