An ass, having put on a lion's skin, roamed about in the forest, and amused himself by frightening all the animals he met with in his wanderings. At last he met a fox, and tried to frighten him also; but the fox no sooner heard the sound of his voice than he exclaimed, "I might have been afraid, if I had not heard you bray."

This fable was written by Æsop, a famous Grecian who lived nearly three thousand years ago.

A fable is a fictitious story designed to enforce some useful lesson or moral. See if you can tell the moral of this one.