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. In the
agony of death, the bird exclaimed: "O unhappy me! who have found in that which I deemed a happy
windfall the source of my destruction."