The Dog and Its Reflection

by Aesop, 1912

A dog crossing a plank bridge with a piece of meat in his mouth sees his own reflection in the stream and takes it for another dog with a piece twice as big. He lets go of his own to snatch the larger one, and ends with neither: one was only a shadow, and the other was carried away by the current. Aesop's fable in V. S. Vernon Jones's 1912 translation.

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A Dog was crossing a plank bridge over a stream with a piece of meat in his mouth,when he happened to see his own reflection in the water.
A Dog was crossing a plank bridge over a stream with a piece of meat in his mouth, when he happened to see his own reflection in the water.
He thought it was another dog with a piece of meat twice as big;so he let go his own,and flew at the other dog to get the larger piece.
He thought it was another dog with a piece of meat twice as big; so he let go his own, and flew at the other dog to get the larger piece.
But, of course, all that happened was that he got neither;for one was only a shadow,and the other was carried away by the current.
But, of course, all that happened was that he got neither; for one was only a shadow, and the other was carried away by the current.

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