Aesop's Fables Edited by Charles Stikeney.

 

THE BOY BATHING

A Little  Boy  once  went  in  bathing  where the water was too deep for him.  He  soon found himself sinking, and cried out to a Man who was passing by, to come and help him.    "Can't you swim?" asked the Man.    "No," replied the Boy.    "How  foolish  you  were,  then,"  said the Man,   "to  go  into  deep  water!  Didn't you know better?"    "Oh, please help me now, or I shall drown!" cried  the  Boy.   "You  can  scold  me when I am safe on shore again." There is a time for everything.