{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/aesop/aes008.htm","path":"cla/aesop/aes008.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/aesop/aes008.htm","text":"A BOY was hunting for locusts. He had caught a goodly number, when he saw a Scorpion, and mistaking him for a locust, reached out his hand to take him. The Scorpion, showing his sting, said: If you had but touched me, my friend, you would have lost me, and all your locusts too!\"","title":"The Boy Hunting Locusts","type":"page"}