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Aesop's Fables, translated by Laura Gibbs (2002)

545. THE FISHERMAN AND THE OCTOPUS
Perry 425 (pseudo-Diogenian, Preface)

When a fisherman happened to see an octopus during the winter, he said, 'If I take off my clothes and jump in after him, I will freeze! But if I do not catch that octopus, I condemn my children to die of starvation!'

Source: Aesop's Fables. A new translation by Laura Gibbs. Oxford University Press (World's Classics): Oxford, 2002.
NOTE: New cover, with new ISBN, published in 2008; contents of book unchanged.