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A
DOG used to run up quietly to the heels of everyone he met, and to
bite them without notice. His master suspended a bell about his neck
so that the Dog might give notice of his presence wherever he went.
Thinking it a mark of distinction, the Dog grew proud of his bell
and went tinkling it all over the marketplace. One day an old hound
said to him: "Why do you make such an exhibition of yourself? That
bell that you carry is not, believe me, any order of merit, but on
the contrary a mark of disgrace, a public notice to all men to avoid
you as an ill mannered dog."
Moral:
Notoriety is often
mistaken for fame
The Mischievous Dog
Fable
A Fable
by
Aesop
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