Aesop's Fables
A
SHEPHERD driving his
Sheep to a wood, saw an
oak of
unusual size full of
acorns, and
spreading his
cloak under the branches, he climbed up into the tree and shook them down. The Sheep eating the acorns
inadvertently frayed and
tore the cloak. When the Shepherd came down and saw what was done, he said, "O you most
ungrateful creatures! You provide
wool to make
garments for all other men, but you destroy the clothes of him who feeds you."