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Aesop's Fables: Townsend (1867)248. The Dove and the Crow (Perry 202) A DOVE shut up in a cage was boasting of the large number of young ones which she had hatched. A Crow hearing her, said: 'My good friend, cease from this unseasonable boasting. The larger the number of your family, the greater your cause of sorrow, in seeing them shut up in this prison-house.'
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. |
