{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/aesop/aes259.htm","path":"cla/aesop/aes259.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/aesop/aes259.htm","text":"A HALF-FAMISHED JACKDAW seated himself on a fig-tree, which had produced some fruit entirely out of season, and waited in the hope that the figs would ripen. A Fox seeing him sitting so long and learning the reason of his doing so, said to him, \"You are indeed, sir, sadly deceiving yourself; you are indulging a hope strong enough to cheat you, but which will never reward you with enjoyment.\"","title":"The Jackdaw and the Fox","type":"page"}