Aesop's Fables (Joseph Jacobs)
Jacobs 51. The Two Pots (Perry 378)
Two Pots had been left on the bank of a river, one of brass, and one
of earthenware. When the tide rose they both floated off down the stream.
Now the earthenware pot tried its best to keep aloof from the brass one,
which cried out: "Fear nothing, friend, I will not strike you."
"But I may come in contact with you," said the other, "if
I come too close; and whether I hit you, or you hit me, I shall suffer
for it."
The strong and the weak cannot keep company.
The
Fables of Aesop, by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by
Richard Heighway (1894). The page images come from Google
Books. The digitized text comes from Project
Gutenberg. You can purchase this inexpensive Dover edition, The
Fables of Aesop by Joseph Jacobs from amazon.com.
|