Pratt: The Fox and the Grapes.

It was a very warm day. "I am so hungry and so thirsty," said the fox, as he came along the dusty road. "Ah, there are some fine juicy grapes! What luck! I will have those grapes." So he gave one great leap up towards the vines. But he could not quite reach them. Again he jumped. And again and again. But each time he fell back more and more out of breath. Then he sat and looked at them. "Sour old things!" he growled. "I would not eat one of them. They are not good enough for a fox. I leave them for the greedy birds. Birds will eat anything." Then he went away; and the grapes rubbed their soft cheeks against one another and laughed softly at the silly old fox.

Source: Mara Pratt's Aesop 2.

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