In some retellings, it is the ant’s reply that the fly perches on dung equally with places of prominence that is stressed. This is so in Odo of Cheriton’s ecclesiastical interpretation,[4] in Roger L'Estrange’s racy version[5] and William Somervile’s clash between a courtier and his country cousin.[6] William Caxton used the story to censure those who praise themselves,[7] while pride is the target of the neo-Latin poem based on the fable by Hieronymus Osius.[8] In La Fontaine's Fables the ant’s provident industry is highlighted,[9] as it is in the contemporary collection illustrated by Francis Barlow[10] as well as in the prose reflections of Samuel Croxall[11] and Thomas Bewick.[12] In Ivan Krylov's variant "The Fly and the Bee", the bee tries to point out that the fly is despised and constantly driven out, to which the fly replies it cares not, since it can always fly back in.[13]