Aesop's Fables
A
HALF-FAMISHED JACKDAW seated himself on a
fig-tree, which had produced some fruit entirely out of
season, and waited in the hope that the figs would
ripen. A
Fox seeing him sitting so long and learning the reason of his doing so, said to him, "You are indeed, sir, sadly
deceiving yourself; you are indulging a
hope strong enough to
cheat you, but which will never reward you with
enjoyment."