The Bear and the Fox
By Aesop
A BEAR boasted very much of his philanthropy, saying that of all animals he was the most tender in his regard for man, for he had such respect for him that he would not even touch his dead body.
A Fox hearing these words said with a smile to the Bear: Oh, that you would eat the dead and not the living!
Moral:
We should not wait till a person is dead, to give him our respect.
Source Book
Aesop's Fables
by Aesop
Translated by unknown
Illustrated by: Harrison Weir, John Tenniel, Ernest Griset, et.al.
Copyright 1881
Published by WM. L. Allison, New York
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