A little hungry Mouse found his way one day into a basket of corn. He gobbled up the poor Frogs right and left and they soon saw what fools they had been. What if you should fall! Please listen to me and come down! The next instant he flew at the Lion and stung him sharply on the nose. A fine hide makes an excellent meal for a hungry Dog, but the water was deep and the Dogs could not reach the hides from the bank. At last, when one of his huge feet came within an inch of King Lion's nose, the animals were so disgusted that they set upon the Camel in a rage and drove him out into the desert. But it was not long before he grew impatient with the Goose because she gave him only a single golden egg a day. Then he started wildly over the field, bleating for his mother. A few days later a change in weather brought a severe frost; and the poor swallow and that foolish young man in his light tunic, and with his arms and knees bare, could scarcely keep life in their shivering bodies.
We often make much of the ornamental and despise the useful.