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Aesop's Fables, translated by Laura Gibbs (2002)73. THE EAGLE AND THE FARMER An eagle was caught by a farmer but the farmer let him go when he realized
what he had caught. The eagle did not forget this good deed, and when
he saw the farmer sitting under a wall that was on the verge of collapsing,
he snatched the bandana from the man's head, wanting to rouse the man
from his seat and make him stand up. After the man set off in pursuit,
the kindly eagle dropped what he had snatched and thus fully repaid the
man's good deed: the man would have been crushed by the wall's collapse
if he had stayed there any longer. After a while the man came back to
where he had been sitting and found that the upright section of the wall
had fallen to the ground.
 Source:
Aesop's Fables. A new translation by Laura
Gibbs.
Oxford University Press (World's Classics): Oxford, 2002. NOTE: New cover, with new ISBN, published in 2008; contents of book unchanged.
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