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Aesop's Fables, translated by Laura Gibbs (2002)281. THE JACKDAW AND THE FIGS A hungry jackdaw alighted on a fig tree. He discovered that the figs were still not ripe, so he decided to wait until they were ready. A fox saw the jackdaw loitering there and asked him what he was waiting for. The fox then offered the jackdaw this piece of advice: 'It is a big mistake to entertain such expectations: hope will lead you on at first but then leave you empty-handed.'  Source:
Aesop's Fables. A new translation by Laura
Gibbs.
Oxford University Press (World's Classics): Oxford, 2002. NOTE: New cover, with new ISBN, published in 2008; contents of book unchanged.
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