The Quack Frog
by Aesop
A FROG once made proclamation to all the beasts that he was a learned physician, and able to heal all diseases. A Fox asked him: How can you pretend to prescribe for others, when you are unable to heal your own lame gait and wrinkled skin?
Moral:
Those who pretend that they can mend others should first mend themselves, and then they will be more readily believed.
Source:
Aesop's FablesCopyright 1881
Translator: unknown
WM. L. Allison, New York
Illustrator: Harrison Weir, John Tenniel, Ernest Griset, et.al.