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Aesop's Fables: Townsend (1867)

161. The Bull, the Lioness, and the Wild-Boar Hunter (Perry 414)

A BULL finding a lion's cub asleep gored him to death with his horns. The Lioness came up, and bitterly lamented the death of her whelp. A wild-boar Hunter, seeing her distress, stood at a distance and said to her, 'Think how many men there are who have reason to lament the loss of their children, whose deaths have been caused by you.'


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 Books.