Human Silhouettes

The Shepherd and the Sheep.

A Shepherd, driving his Sheep to a wood, saw an oak of unusual size,full of acorns, and, spreading his cloak under the branches, he climbedup into the tree, and shook down the acorns. The sheep, eating theacorns, frayed and tore the cloak. The Shepherd coming down, and seeingwhat was done, said: "O you most ungrateful creatures! you provide woolto make garments for all other men, but you destroy the clothes of himwho feeds you."

The basest ingratitude is that which injures those who serve us.

From Aesop's Fables