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Fable of the Farmer and the Stork
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
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A farmer catches a stork and a goose with a net. In the sky, herons are flying. The fable describes how a farmer has stretched a net over his field to catch herons and geese that are destroying his harvest. A stork gets caught in the net. The moral of the story teaches that whoever associates with sinners will suffer a similar fate.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineFabel van de boer en de ooievaar. 1608. Aegidius Sadeler (II). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
