The Fables of Æsop (Jacobs)/The Serpent and the File

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London: Macmillan, pages 66–67. See notes.


The Serpent & the File.


A Serpent in the course of its wanderings came into an armourer's shop. As he glided over the floor he felt his skin pricked by a file lying there. In a rage he turned round upon it and tried to dart his fangs into it; but he could do no harm to heavy iron and had soon to give over his wrath.


It is useless attacking the insensible.