An Ass was feeding in a pasture near a wood when he saw a Wolf lurking in the shadows along the hedge. Take hold of this stick with your teeth and we will carry you far up in the air where you can see the whole countryside. The Crane proved to be a very different sort of king from old King Log. Mercury was greatly pleased with the Woodman's honesty. His dancing was very clever indeed, and the animals were all highly pleased with his grace and lightness. Hurrying to King Monkey, he told him he had found a rich treasure, which he had not touched because it belonged by right to his majesty the Monkey. All this the Ass saw with much discontent. When the Judge called the case, witnesses declared that they had seen certain winged creatures in the neighborhood of the hollow tree, who hummed loudly, and whose bodies were striped, yellow and black, like Bees. They had not forgotten his superior airs toward them, and, to punish him, they drove him away with a rain of pecks and jeers.
What is evil won is evil lost.