Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Weasel and the Man

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3914201Æsop's Fables: A New Translation — The Weasel and the ManVernon S. Vernon JonesAesop

THE WEASEL AND THE MAN

A MAN once caught a Weasel, which was always sneaking about the house, and was just going to drown it in a tub of water, when it begged hard for its life, and said to him, “Surely you haven’t the heart to put me to death? Think how useful I have been in clearing your house of the mice and lizards which used to infest it, and show your gratitude by sparing my life.” “You have not been altogether useless, I grant you,” said the Man: “but who killed the fowls? Who stole the meat? No, no! You do much more harm than good, and die you shall.”