Some Boys were playing one day at the edge of a pond in which lived a family of Frogs. But first please pipe me a tune, for I want to dance and be merry as long as I can. Goodby, neighbor Cricket, he called. I'm off. Do not say 'I have found a purse,' said his companion. Say rather 'we have found a purse' and 'how lucky we are. Yes, said the Grasshoppers, who were very fond of a joke; it is the dew we drink! Now the Bat family had not openly joined either side. From this he took a very small portion for himself, such undesirable bits as the horns and hoofs of a mountain goat, and the end of an ox tail. To each one he showed an axe of gold, and each one eagerly claimed it to be the one he had lost. The two soon came to blows, and while they were fighting, the Ass took to its heels.
Expect no reward for serving the wicked.