The Flies and the Honey-Pot
A NUMBER of Flies were attracted to a jar of
honey which had been overturned in a
housekeeper's room, and placing their feet in
it, ate greedily. Their feet, however, became
so smeared with the honey that they could
not use their wings, nor release themselves,
and were suffocated. Just as they were expiring,
they exclaimed, "O foolish creatures that
we are, for the sake of a little pleasure we
have destroyed ourselves." Pleasure bought
with pains, hurts.
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