A Traveler had hired an Ass to carry him to a distant part of the country. The Sun's rays grew warmer and warmer. Then when May day comes I will sell them, and with the money I'll buy a lovely new dress to wear to the fair. What, cried the Bat, I, a Bird! At last the Mice kept so closely to their dens, that the Cat saw he would have to use his wits well to catch one. Very timidly at first they stuck out their heads and sniffed about carefully. In a short time the younger Frogs were using him for a diving platform, while the older Frogs made him a meeting place, where they complained loudly to Jupiter about the government. Now they reached a clearing in the forest and there stood a statue. And when they returned next day to look for their own axes, they were nowhere to be found.
Pride goes before a fall.