Fable 181 - The Dog and the Shellfish

There was a dog who used to swallow eggs. One day he saw a shellfish. He opened his mouth and snapped his jaws shut again violently,
swallowing it, because he thought it was an egg. But, feeling heaviness in his bowels, he became ill and said:
‘I only got what I deserve – I, who assume that everything round is an egg.’

This fable teaches us that those who undertake things recklessly get themselves into strange predicaments.