Aesop's Fables. Translated by Rev. George Fyler Townsend. 1860.

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!"