Aesop's Fables

A vine was luxuriant in the time of vintage with leaves and grapes.  A Goat, passing by, nibbled its young tendrils and its leaves.  The Vine addressed him and said:  “Why do you thus injure me without a cause, and crop my leaves?  Is there no young grass left?  But I shall not have to wait long for my just revenge; for if you now should crop my leaves, and cut me down to my root, I shall provide the wine to pour over you when you are led as a victim to the sacrifice.”