The Dog and the Shadow
An Aesop Fable
A DOG, crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of flesh in his mouth, saw his own shadow in the water, and took it
for another Dog, with a piece of meat double his own size. He therefore let go his own, and fiercely attacked the other
Dog, to get his largest piece from him. He thus lost both - that which he grasped at in the water, because it was a
shadow; and his own, because the stream swept it away.
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SCIENCE 6 QUARTER 3​