The Crab and Its Mother
By Aesop
A CRAB said to her son: "Why do you walk so one-sided, my child? It is far more becoming to go straight forward. " The young Crab replied: Quite true, dear Mother; and if you will show me the straight way, I will promise to walk in it.
The Mother tried in vain, and submitted without remonstrance to the reproof of her child.
Moral:
Example is more powerful than precept.
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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