Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Bull and the Calf

by Aesop

THE BULL AND THE CALF

A FULL-GROWN Bull was struggling to force his huge bulk through the narrow entrance to a cow-house where his stall was, when a young Calf came up and said to him, “If you’ll step aside a moment, I’ll show you the way to get through.” The Bull turned upon him an amused look. “I knew that way,” said he, “before you were born.”