A _Wolf_ and a _Crane_.
A _Wolf_ had got a Bone in’s Throat, and could think of no better
Instrument to Ease him of it, than the Bill of a _Crane_; so he went and
Treated with a _Crane_ to help him out with it, upon Condition of a very
considerable Reward for his pains. The _Crane_ did him the Good Office,
and then claim’d his Promise. Why how now Impudence! (says t’other)
Do you put your Head into the Mouth of a _Wolf_, and then, when y’ave
brought it out again safe and sound, do you talk of a Reward? Why Sirrah,
you have your Head again, and is not that a Sufficient Recompence?
The MORAL.
_One Good Turn they say requires another: But yet He that has to do with
Wild Beasts (as some Men are No Better) and comes of with a Whol Skin,
let him Expect No Other Reward._