Aesop's Fables The Wolf
Crane
Wolf
gorging on an animal he had killed, when suddenly
small bone
meat stuck
throat and
swallow it
He soon felt terrible pain
throat, and ran up and down groaning and groaning and seeking for something to relieve the pain
He tried to induce
he met to remove the bone
`
give anything,' said he, `
take it out
' At last the Crane agreed
, and told the Wolf to lie
side and open his jaws as wide as
Then the Crane put its long neck down the Wolf's throat, and with its beak loosened the bone, till at last it got it out

`
kindly
the reward you promised ? ' said the Crane

The Wolf grinned and showed his teeth and said: `Be content
put your head inside
Wolf's mouth and taken it out again in safety; that
reward enough
'
Gratitude and greed go not together