The Farmer and the Snake - Very Short Story from Aesop's Fables

Aesop's Fables - Very Short Story

ONE WINTER a Farmer found a Snake stiff and frozen with cold. He had compassion on it, and taking it up, placed it in his bosom. The Snake was quickly revived by the warmth, and resuming its natural instincts, bit its benefactor, inflicting on him a mortal wound. "Oh," cried the Farmer with his last breath, "I am rightly served for pitying a scoundrel."

Moral:

The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful

The Farmer and the Snake

What is a Fable? A Fable is a very short story with a Moral. It features a plant, animal, mythical creature or inanimate object which is brought to life in the story (anthropomorphised). The moral is explained at the end of the fable.

Fables are described as succinct, brief, concise or very short stories with a moral.

The Farmer and the Snake
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