Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Kid on the Housetop

by Aesop

THE KID ON THE HOUSETOP

A KID climbed up on to the roof of an outhouse, attracted by the grass and other things that grew in the thatch; and as he stood there browsing away, he caught sight of a Wolf passing below, and jeered at him because he couldn’t reach him. The Wolf only looked up and said, “I hear you, my young friend; but it is not you who mock me, but the roof on which you are standing.”