Aesop fable

The Dog and Her Shadow

A very short fable about a dog who saw her reflection in the water.

A Dog was walking across a little plank over a river, carrying a piece of meat in her teeth.

A dog carries meat across a plank over a river

She saw herself in the water and thought another dog was carrying meat there.

The dog sees her reflection in the water with meat

She dropped her own meat and rushed to take the meat from that other dog.

The dog jumps toward the reflection while the meat falls into the water

But there was no other meat at all, and the river carried her own meat away.

So the Dog was left with nothing.

The dog stands in the water without the meat