The Dove and the Ant

An Ant, going to a river to drink, fell in, and was carried along in the stream. A Dove, pitied her condition, and threw into the river a small bough, by means of which the Ant gained the shore. The Ant, afterward, seeing a man with a fowling-piece aiming at the Dove, stung him in the foot sharply, and made him miss his aim, and so saved the Dove's life.