Aesop's Fables: Townsend (1867)
148. The Peasant and the Eagle (Perry
296)
A PEASANT found an Eagle captured in a trap, and much admiring the bird,
set him free. The Eagle did not prove ungrateful to his deliverer, for
seeing the Peasant sitting under a wall which was not safe, he flew toward
him and with his talons snatched a bundle from his head. When the Peasant
rose in pursuit, the Eagle let the bundle fall again. Taking it up, the
man returned to the same place, to find that the wall under which he had
been sitting had fallen to pieces; and he marveled at the service rendered
him by the Eagle.
George Fyler Townsend's translation of the fables, first published in 1867, is
in the public domain and can be found at many websites, including Project
Gutenberg.
Illustrations come from: Aesop's Fables, by George Fyler Townsend, with
illustrations by Harrison Weir, 1867, at Google
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