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Aesop's Fables: Townsend (1867)

144. The Seagull and the Kite (Perry 139)

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.'
Every man should be content to mind his own business.


George Fyler Townsend's translation of the fables, first published in 1867, is in the public domain and can be found at many websites, including Project Gutenberg. Illustrations come from: Aesop's Fables, by George Fyler Townsend, with illustrations by Harrison Weir, 1867, at Google Books.