Pratt: The Fox and the Crab.

A little crab said to his mother, "I should like to go across the field up to that shining sand." "Your place is here in the water," snapped the mother crab. "But it looks so pleasant up there in the sun!" teased the little crab. "A fox will catch you if you go on land," snapped the mother again. "But I want to go," teased the little crab. "Go then," snapped the mother crab. So the little crab went. How nice and warm it was! How the sand shone in the sunlight! "Oho!" said a fox coming along just then. "Here is my breakfast all ready for me!" Crack, crack went the crab's thin shell. One moment and there was no crab at all. But there was a fox with a nice breakfast just eaten.

Source: Mara Pratt's Aesop 12.

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