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A short story by Aesop (author of Aesop's Fables) |
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The Wolf And The Goat |
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Title: The Wolf And The Goat Author: Aesop (author of Aesop's Fables) [More Titles by Aesop (author of Aesop's Fables)] A Wolf saw a Goat feeding at the summit of a steep precipice, where he had not a chance of reaching her. He called to her, and earnestly besought her to come lower down, lest she should by some mishap get a fall; and he added that the meadows lay where he was standing, and that the herbage was most tender. She replied: "No, my friend, it is not of me you are thinking, but of yourself." Invitations prompted by selfishness are not to be accepted. [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |