{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/aesop/aes082.htm","path":"cla/aesop/aes082.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/aesop/aes082.htm","text":"A CRAB said to her son, \"Why do you walk so one-sided, my child? It is far more becoming to go straight forward.\" The young Crab replied: \"Quite true, dear Mother; and if you will show me the straight way, I will promise to walk in it.\" The Mother tried in vain, and submitted without remonstrance to the reproof of her child.\nExample is more powerful than precept.","title":"The Crab and Its Mother","type":"page"}