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The Fowler and the Ringdove.

A Fowler took his gun, and went into the woods a shooting. He spied aRingdove among the branches of an oak, and intended to kill it. Heclapped the piece to his shoulder, and took his aim accordingly. But,just as he was going to pull the trigger, an adder, which he had trodupon under the grass, stung him so painfully in the leg that he wasforced to quit his design, and threw his gun down in a passion. Thepoison immediately infected his blood, and his whole body began tomortify; which, when he perceived, he could not help owning it to bejust. "Fate," said he, "has brought destruction upon me while I wascontriving the death of another."

Men often fall into the trap which they prepare for others.

From Aesop's Fables