III. The Man and the Dog

Torn by a Cur, a man was led

To throw the snappish thief some bread

Dipt in the blood, which, he was told,

Had been a remedy of old. Then

Esop thus:— “Forbear to show

A pack of dogs the thing you do,

Lest they should soon devour us quite,

When thus rewarded as they bite.”

One wicked miscreant’s success

Makes many more the trade profess.

Riley