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Aesop's Fables, translated by Laura Gibbs (2002)

448. THE MONKEY AND THE NUT
Perry (Odo 47)

A fable for people who are unwilling to suffer adversity.
The monkey gladly eats nuts because the nutmeats are tasty, but when she tastes the bitterness of the shell she throws the nut away and loses the nutmeat inside.

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.