The Fox and the Grapes
One day, Fox was strolling along near the end of the woods when he spotted a large grape vine with a bunch of freshly ripened grapes on a high
branch. “What a delightful treat for me!”
thought the Fox. He jumped for the
branch, but could not quite reach it. He continued to repeatedly jump and miss the grapes. Fox did this so many times that he
exhausted himself and had to give up. As he slowly made his way away from the grape vine, he could be heard muttering to himself. “They were
probably ruined and sour anyway.”
Moral of the Fable: It is easy to hate what you cannot
acquire.
The Crow and the Pitcher
A Crow was
literally dying of thirst when he came upon a large pitcher. The Crow delightedly flew to the Pitcher hoping to find it full of water. Once there, he was
disappointed to find that even though it had water in it, he could not reach the water with his
beak. He tried and tried to no
avail. Finally he had an idea. Using his
beak, he carefully gathered pebbles and dropped them in the Pitcher. Gradually the water rose in the Pitcher and he was
able to drink it. He had saved his own life.
Moral of the Fable: Necessity if the mother of all inventions.