The Dog And His Shadow

One day while wandering in the streets a dog luckily stole a piece of meat from the farmer's kitchen. The dog ran as fast as he could carrying the piece of meat in his mouth. At last he came across a bridge over a stream and with a piece of meat in his mouth, saw his own reflection in the water. Thinking it was another dog with a bigger piece of meat, he growled and frowned at it, wishing to have that morsel, too.

He, then, opened his mouth to get the other piece of meat, but at that moment, his own fell into the water with a splash and the stream swept it away. He thus lost both.

             Moral Of The Story: Too much greed results in nothing.