A Gnat flew over the meadow with much buzzing for so small a creature and settled on the tip of one of the horns of a Bull. Then is the time to eat me. The Wolf could not help thinking how nice it would be to have a fine fat Dog to eat instead of the scrawny object before him. Then one fine day in early spring he found himself with not a penny left, and no property save the clothes he wore. When the weather cleared, and the Shepherd led the Goats out to feed, the Wild Goats scampered off to the hills. The object they saw came ever nearer the shore. I admire your honesty, he said, and as a reward you may have all three axes, the gold and the silver as well as your own. I wasn't born until this year. When the poor Fox Without a Tail turned around, there arose such a storm of jeers and hooting, that he saw how useless it was to try any longer to persuade the Foxes to part with their tails.
Borrowed feathers do not make fine birds.