Three Hundred Æsop's Fables/The Crab and its Mother
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THE CRAB AND ITS MOTHER.
A Crab said to her son, "Why do you walk so onesided, my child? It is far more becoming to go straightforward." The young Crab replied: "Quite true, dear mother; and if you will show me the straight way, I will promise to walk in it." The mother tried in vain, and submitted without remonstrance to the reproof of her child.
Example is more powerful than precept.