A Crab one day grew disgusted with the sands in which he lived. But the Gnat was not in the least disturbed. It turned out as the Frog had said I shall take very good care of you. Just then a Swallow flew by, twittering merrily, and the young man, thinking summer had come, hastened off to a clothes dealer, to whom he sold all the clothes he wore down to his very tunic. He soon returned to the field with a sling. While the Ass cropped a fresh bit of greens, the Fox would devour a chicken from the neighboring farmyard or a bit of cheese filched from the dairy. He soon roused the whole hen yard, and when the Farmer came running out, that was the end of Mr. Fox.
We often make much of the ornamental and despise the useful.