{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/aesop/aes222.htm","path":"cla/aesop/aes222.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/aesop/aes222.htm","text":"A FOWLER, taking his bird-lime and his twigs, went out to catch birds. Seeing a thrush sitting upon a tree, he wished to take it, and fitting his twigs to a proper length, watched intently, having his whole thoughts directed towards the sky. While thus looking upwards, he unknowingly trod upon a Viper asleep just before his feet. The Viper, turning about, stung him, and falling into a swoon, the man said to himself, \"Woe is me! that while I purposed to hunt another, I am myself fallen unawares into the snares of death.\"","title":"The Fowler and the Viper","type":"page"}