Aesop's Tales/The Dove and the Ant

An Ant, going to an ea to drink, fell in, and was carried along in the stream. A Dove pitied her fettle, and threw into the ea a small bough, by means of which the Ant gained the shore. The Ant afterward, seeing a man with a fowling-gun wending at the Dove, stung him in the foot sharply, and made him miss his shot, and so spared the Dove's life.

"Little friends may prove great friends."