[Illustration: THE DOG AND THE SHADOW.]
A Dog, crossing a little rivulet with a piece of flesh in his mouth, saw
his own Shadow represented in the clear mirror of the limpid stream;
and, believing it to be another dog, who was carrying another piece of
flesh, he could not forbear catching at it; but was so far from getting
any thing his greedy design, that he dropped the piece he had in his
mouth, which immediately sunk to the bottom, and was irrecoverably lost.