Aesop's Fables: Townsend (1867)
43. The Boasting Traveler (Perry 33)
A MAN who had traveled in foreign lands boasted very much, on returning
to his own country, of the many wonderful and heroic feats he had performed
in the different places he had visited. Among other things, he said that
when he was at Rhodes he had leaped to such a distance that no man of
his day could leap anywhere near him as to that, there were in Rhodes
many persons who saw him do it and whom he could call as witnesses. One
of the bystanders interrupted him, saying: 'Now, my good man, if this
be all true there is no need of witnesses. Suppose this to be Rhodes,
and leap for us.'
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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