A Dog had learned to carry his master's dinner to him every day. Why, it looks to me like a couple of Dogs coming this way. He asked them to let him share the cave with them, and the Snakes kindly consented. There he would find better fare than briny water and sand mites. The father died, and no sooner was he in his grave than the sons set to work digging with all their might, turning up every foot of ground with their spades, and going over the whole farm two or three times. What caught his attention this time and made him stop for a second look, was that the lucky Crow held a bit of cheese in her beak. That is a Jackdaw, my children. So she opened her beak wide to utter her loudest caw, and down fell the cheese straight into the Fox's open mouth. I am of just as much importance, and But just then the royal Cat spied him, and the next instant, the Rat knew he was not quite so important as an Elephant.
You are judged by the company you keep.