A wolf when eating his dinner one day swallowed a bone, which stuck in his throat. He went about howling, asking every animal he met to help him, and promised a large reward to anyone who could get the bone out. At last a stork, who had a long, slender neck and bill, undertook the task.

Poking his long bill down the wolf’s throat, he got hold of the bone and pulled it out; but when he asked for his reward the wolf laughed, and said: “You may think yourself lucky that I did not bite your head off when it was in my mouth.”

Some people are not grateful when anyone does them a kindness.