The Mole And His Mother

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A little Mole once said to his Mother:

“Why, Mother, you said I was blind! But I am sure I can see!”

Mother Mole saw she would have to get such conceit out of his head. So she put a bit of frankincense before him and asked him to tell what it was.

The little Mole peered at it.

“Why, that’s a pebble!”

“Well, my son, that proves you’ve lost your sense of smell as well as being blind.”

Aesop was an ancient Greek storyteller, believed to have lived around 620–564 BCE, whose fables have shaped moral storytelling across cultures for centuries. "The Mole And His Mother" is one of his shorter pieces, using a single, deft exchange to deliver its point with characteristic economy. Aesop's fables were originally part of an oral tradition before being collected and written down by later authors.

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