Aesop's Fables
A
HARE pounced upon by an
eagle sobbed very much and uttered cries like a child. A
Sparrow upbraided her and said, "Where now is thy
remarkable swiftness of foot? Why were your feet so slow?" While the Sparrow was thus speaking, a
hawk suddenly seized him and killed him. The Hare was
comforted in her death, and
expiring said, "Ah! you who so
lately, when you supposed yourself safe, exulted over my
calamity, have now reason to
deplore a similar
misfortune."