Aesop | Greece
The Farmer and the Snake
A farmer saves a dying snake, but the snake repays kindness with a fatal bite.
One cold winter day, a farmer saw a snake lying still and almost frozen near his field. The snake looked like it was going to die because of the cold. The farmer felt sorry for the snake and decided to help it.
The kind farmer picked up the snake and took it home. He put the cold snake near a warm fire, hoping the heat would help it. Slowly, the snake began to warm up and get stronger.
As the snake got better, it suddenly moved and bit the farmer who had saved it. The bite was poisonous, and the farmer quickly began to feel sick.
The farmer realized the snake he helped had hurt him, and he felt sad. As he got sicker, he thought about how helping the wrong animal could cause regret.
