There was once a Dog who was very fond of eggs. He visited the hen house very often and at last got so greedy that he would swallow the eggs whole.
One day the Dog wandered down to the seashore. There he spied an Oyster. In a twinkling the Oyster was resting in the Dog’s stomach, shell and all.
It pained the Dog a good deal, as you can guess.
“I’ve learned that all round things are not eggs,” he said groaning.
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Aesop was an ancient Greek storyteller, believed to have lived around 620–564 BCE, whose fables have been retold across cultures for over two thousand years. "The Dog And The Oyster" is one of his shorter moral tales, illustrating the danger of acting on false assumptions — a theme that runs throughout his work. Though Aesop himself may be more legend than historical fact, the sharp wit behind his stories has never lost its edge.
