A Swallow was once boasting to a Crow about her birth. "I was once a princess," said she,
"the daughter of a King of Athens, but my husband used me cruelly, and cut out my tongue for a slight fault. Then, to protect me from further injury, I was turned by Juno into a bird."
"You chatter quite enough as it is," said the Crow.
"What you would have been like if you hadn't lost your tongue, I can't think."
The moral—and one you should learn well, son—is this: Women never shut up.
