The Serpent and the File
Aesop's Fables


         A Serpent in the course of its wanderings came into an armorer's shop. As he glided over the floor he felt his skin pricked by a file lying there. In a rage he turned upon it and tried to dart his fangs into it, but he could do no harm to the heavy iron and had soon to give over his wrath.

It is useless attacking the insensible.