Three Hundred Æsop's Fables/The Dog in the Manger

London: George Routledge and Sons, page 47


THE DOG IN THE MANGER.

A Dog lay in a manger, and by his growling and snapping prevented the oxen from eating the hay which had been placed for them. "What a selfish Dog!" said one of them to his companions; "he cannot eat the hay himself, and yet refuses to allow those to eat who can."