{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/aesop/aes054.htm","path":"cla/aesop/aes054.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/aesop/aes054.htm","text":"A SICK STAG lay down in a quiet corner of its pasture-ground. His companions came in great numbers to inquire after his health, and each one helped himself to a share of the food which had been placed for his use; so that he died, not from his sickness, but from the failure of the means of living.\nEvil companions bring more hurt than profit.","title":"The Sick Stag","type":"page"}