The Crow and The Snake

The Fabled Thread

A hungry Crow, flying about in quest of his prey, saw a Snake basking himself upon the side of a sunny bank. Down he soused upon him, and seized him with his horny beak, in order to devour him. But the Snake, writhing to and fro with the pain, bit the Crow again with his venomous teeth, to such a degree, that he could not survive it. The Crow, in the agonies of death, is said to have confessed that this judgment happened to him justly; since he had attempted to satisfy his craving appetite at th