The Sick Kite

A Kite, sick unto death, said to his mother: "O Mother! do not mourn, but at once invoke the gods that my life may be prolonged." She replied, "Alas! my son, which of the gods do you think will pity you? Is there one whom you have not outraged by filching from their very altars a part of the sacrifice offered up to them?'

We must make friends in prosperity if we would have their help in adversity.

Read the following selections from Aesop
There is no believing a liar, even when he speaks the truth.

P. 1 The Shepherd's Boy and the Wolf
P. 2 The Shepherd and the Wolf
P. 3 The Shipwrecked Man and the Sea
P. 4 The Sick Kite
P. 5 The Sick Lion