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I've been casually reading some of Aesop's fabled fables from some cheap publisher. It's intriguing to me that in the rather uninspiring and uninformative introduction, as are most when not written by the author and not by Vonnegut, mentions that the fables are thought to be from Egyptian times.
Anything ancient like this is bound to strike me as something worthwhile to read and study a bit and it depresses me that the only version I have is something that was most likely printed for children looking to get a taste of Aesop, or more accurately, parents wishing their children to have a taste. Anyone know anything more than just, "...it's possible that these stories come from the time of the Egyptians!" ?
Anyway, here's a good one paraphrased by me:

An olive tree pipes up to a fig tree saying, "Look at you! In the winter you lose all of your leaves and look comely and bare while I keep all of my beautiful plumage and am just as gorgeous throughout winter as now!" The fig tree keeps quiet.
When the winter comes a heavy snow falls and the olive tree, with all it's beautiful leaves attached, catches the snow in it's boughs and, unable to hold the weight, bends over and snaps. The fig tree let all the snow fall between it's barren branchs and survived to the spring to bear more fruit many seasons past.