Monday, October 25, 2010

Crane: The Dog and The Shadow

His image the Dog did not know,
Or his bone's, in the pond's painted show:
"T'other dog," so he thought,
"Has got more than he ought,"
So he snapped and his dinner saw go!

GREED IS SOMETIMES CAUGHT BY ITS OWN BAIT


Source: W. J. Linton's fables in verse, with illustrations by Walter Crane: Fable 38.
Canis et Umbra

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