Aesop’s Fables. Fable 36. The Collier and the Fuller


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A friendly Collier meeting one day with a Fuller, an old acquaintance of his, kindly invited him to come and share his house. “A thousand thanks for your civility,” replied the Fuller; “but I am rather afraid that as fast as I make anything clean, you will be for smutting it again.”


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