Aesop's Fables: Townsend (1867)
193. The Horse and the Stag (Perry
269)
AT ONE TIME the Horse had the plain entirely to himself. Then a Stag
intruded into his domain and shared his pasture. The Horse, desiring to
revenge himself on the stranger, asked a man if he were willing to help
him in punishing the Stag. The man replied that if the Horse would receive
a bit in his mouth and agree to carry him, he would contrive effective
weapons against the Stag. The Horse consented and allowed the man to mount
him. From that hour he found that instead of obtaining revenge on the
Stag, he had enslaved himself to the service of man.
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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