A Seagull having bolted down too large a fish, burst its deep gullet-bag and lay down on the shore to die. A Kite saw him and exclaimed: “You richly deserve your fate; for a bird of the air has no business to seek its food from the sea.”
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Aesop was an ancient Greek storyteller, believed to have lived around 620–564 BCE, whose fables have been retold across centuries and cultures. His tales are celebrated for distilling human — and animal — folly into compact, memorable moral lessons. "The Seagull and the Kite" is notable for the kite's cool, judgmental tone, which places the moral weight not in the tragedy itself but in a bystander's sharp rebuke.
