'The Frog and the Fox' (or 'The Quack Frog'), an illustration by John Vernon Lord in Aesop's Fables, Jonathan Cape, 1989, page 81.
The text:
The Frog, who Claimed
he was a Physician, and the Fox
A FROG made proclamation to all the beasts of the forest
that he was a skilful physician, and could cure all manner of diseases. This
discourse uttered in a learned jargon of hard and cramped words, which nobody
understood, made the beasts admire his learning, and give credit to his
vauntings. At last the Fox asked him, with much indignation, how he, with his
thin lantern jaws, speckled skin and disfigured body, could set up for one able
to cure the infirmities of others.
Moral: We should not attempt to
correct in others the faults peculiar to ourselves.
Text: Samuel Croxall (43, 1722) adapted by G. F. Townsend (3,
1866)
Selected parallels: Babrius 120. Avianus 6. L’Estrange 1/225.
Chambry 69. Perry 289. TMI J1062.1.
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