THE DOVE AND THE ANT

Name: Aesop’s Fables: The Dove and the Ant - The Dove and the Ant
Author: Aesop

An Ant, going to a river to drink, fell in, and was carried along in the stream. A Dove pitied her condition, and threw into the river a small bough, by means of which the Ant gained the shore. The Ant afterward, seeing a man with a fowling-piece aiming at the Dove, stung him in the foot sharply, and made him miss his aim, and so saved the Dove’s life.

Little friends may prove great friends.

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