Aesop's Fables by  J. H. Stickney

The Dog in the Manger

A DOG once made his bed in a manger and lay there snarling and growling at whoever came by. The Oxen coming for their prevender said: "What a miserable cur! neither to eat the grain himself nor to let any one else eat it!"


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