Aesop's Fables: Sir Roger L'Estrange (1692)
79. A SHEEP AND A CROW (Perry 553)
There was a Crow sat chattering upon the Back of a Sheep: Well! Sirrah,
says the Sheep, you durst not ha’ done this to a Dog. Why, I know that,
says the Crow, as well as you can tell me, for I have the Wit to consider
whom I have to do withal. I can be as quiet as any body with those that
are quarrelsome, and I can be as troublesome as another too, when I meet
with those that will take it.
THE MORAL. ‘Tis the Nature and Practice of Drolls and Buffoons, to
be insolent toward those that will bear it, and as slavish as others more
than their Match.
 L'Estrange originally published his version of the fables in 1692. There is a
very nice illustrated edition in the Children's Classics series by Knopf: Sir
Roger L'Estrange. Aesop
- Fables which is available at amazon.com.
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