{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/aesop/aes278.htm","path":"cla/aesop/aes278.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/aesop/aes278.htm","text":"A CROW in great want of food saw a Serpent asleep in a sunny nook, and flying down, greedily seized him. The Serpent, turning about, bit the Crow with a mortal wound. In the agony of death, the bird exclaimed: \"O unhappy me! who have found in that which I deemed a happy windfall the source of my destruction.\"","title":"The Crow and the Serpent","type":"page"}