GRADES 1-3 AESOP'S FABLES - THE WOLF AND THE CRANE
THE WOLF AND THE CRANE
One day a wolf was eating his dinner. He ate so fast that a bone stuck in his throat.
“Oh, good friend,” he gasped to the crane, “please help me! There is a bone in my throat! With your long bill you can get it out! I will pay you for helping me.”
“I will try,” said the good crane. So she put her bill down the wolf’s throat and pulled out the bone.
“I could have died,” said the wolf, as he started to feel better.
“If you will pay me now, I will go,” said the crane.
“Pay you! Pay you!” snapped the wolf. “Just be glad that I did not bite off your head!”
Then the wolf trotted off into the wood, thinking that he had played a very smart trick upon the crane.
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