The Lark and Her Young Ones

by Aesop

He will reap the field himself.

A LARK had made her nest in the young green wheat. The brood had almost grown, when the owner of the field, overlooking over his crop, said: I must send to all my neighbors to help me with my harvest. One of the young Larks heard him and asked his mother to what place they should move for safety. There is no occasion to move yet, my son, she replied. The owner of the field came a few days later, and said: I will come myself tomorrow and will get in the harvest. Then the lark said to her brood: It is time now to be off - he no longer trusts to his friends, but will reap the field himself.

Moral:
Self-help is the best help.

Source:

Aesop's Fables
Copyright 1881
Translator: unknown
WM. L. Allison, New York
Illustrator: Harrison Weir, John Tenniel, Ernest Griset, et.al.