Good Radings: "The Boy Hunting Locusts" by Aesop (translated into English)

          A boy was hunting for locusts.  He had caught a goodly number, when he saw a Scorpion, and mistaking him for a locust, reached out his hand to take him.  The Scorpion, showing his sting, said:
If you had but touched me, my friend, you would have lost me, and all your locusts too!"