The Gnat and the Bull - read by Aesock H Puppet (Aesop Fable)

19 Apr 2020 · 1 min

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Aesop H Puppet reads the fable of a gnat that lands on a bull's horn, apologizes for bothering it, and flies away. The bull doesn't even notice. The moral: we overestimate our importance, and small minds have the biggest egos.

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Hi, my name is Aesop H Puppet, and I'm going to read you one of Uncle Aesop's famous fables. This one is called, um, The Gnat and the Bull. A gnat flew over the meadow with much buzzing for so small a creature. And settled on the tip of one of the horns of a bull. After he had rested a short time, he made ready to fly away, but before he left he begged the bull's pardon for having used his horn for a resting place.
"You must be very glad to have me go now," he said. "It's all the same to me," replied the Bull.
"I didn't even know you were there." Uncle Aesop says, "We are often of greater importance in our own eyes than in the eyes of our neighbor. The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit."