AESOP'S FABLES - online children's book

300 favourite fables with illustrations by Arthur Rackham

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	THE BALD MAN AND THE PLY A FLY settled on the head of a Bald Man and bit him. In his eagerness to kill it, he hit himself a smart slap. But the Fly escaped, and said to him in derision, You tried to kill me for just one little bite ; what will you do to yourself now, for the heavy smack you have just given yourself ? ' ' Oh, for that blow I bear no grudge," he replied, " for I never in­tended myself any harm ; but as for you, you contemptible 129