The Dog and the Bone
A free B1-level English story for language learners, readable online in 7 languages, with an option to listen via the free Storyteller app.
Crossing a bridge with a piece of meat in his mouth, a dog spots his own reflection in the water and mistakes it for another dog with a bigger prize.
A Dog was crossing a plank bridge over a stream with a piece of meat in his mouth, when he happened to see his own reflection in the water. He thought it was another dog with a piece of meat twice as big; so he let go his own, and flew at the other dog to get the larger piece. But, of course, all that happened was that he got neither; for one was only a shadow, and the other was carried away by the current.
