Aesop's Fables: Townsend (1867)
305. The Eagle and His Captor (Perry
275)
AN EAGLE was once captured by a man, who immediately clipped his wings
and put him into his poultry-yard with the other birds, at which treatment
the Eagle was weighed down with grief. Later, another neighbor purchased
him and allowed his feathers to grow again. The Eagle took flight, and
pouncing upon a hare, brought it at once as an offering to his benefactor.
A Fox, seeing this, exclaimed, 'Do not cultivate the favor of this man,
but of your former owner, lest he should again hunt for you and deprive
you a second time of your wings.'
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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