Three Hundred Æsop's Fables/The Wasp and the Snake

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London: George Routledge and Sons, page 114

THE WASP AND THE SNAKE.

A Wasp seated himself upon the head of a Snake, and striking him unceasingly with his stings wounded him to death. The Snake, being in great torment, and not knowing how to rid himself of his enemy, or to scare him away, saw a waggon heavily laden with wood, and went and purposely placed his head under the wheels, and said, "I and my enemy shall thus perish together."