Aesop's Fables

The Boy Hunting Locusts

A BOY was hunting for locusts.  He had caught a goodly number,
when he saw a Scorpion, and mistaking him for a locust, reached
out his hand to take him.  The Scorpion, showing his sting, said: 
If you had but touched me, my friend, you would have lost me, and
all your locusts too!”