156. Cervus et Vitis. Fugiens venatores, cerva sub vite latebat. Mox frondibus vitis vesci incepit. Ramos vero agitatos venatores videntes, sagittis cervam confecere. Moriens ait, “Haec merito patior, quia viti bene facienti nocebam.”
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M0156 Perry077. Source: Stoddart p. 111. This is Perry 77. Compare the fable of the goat and the vine, #735.