Aesop's Fables: Sir Roger L'Estrange (1692)
136. A PEACH, AN APPLE, AND A BLACKBERRY (Perry
213)
There happen’d a Controversy once betwixt a Peach and an Apple, which
was the fairer Fruit of the two. They were so loud in their Discourse,
that a Blackberry, from the next Hedge, over-heard them. Come (says the
Blackberry) we are all Friends, and pray let’s have no jangling among
ourselves.
THE MORAL OF THE TWO FABLES ABOVE. Every thing would be thought greater
in the World than it is; and the Root of it is this, that it first thinks
itself so.
L'Estrange originally published his version of the fables in 1692. There is a
very nice illustrated edition in the Children's Classics series by Knopf: Sir
Roger L'Estrange. Aesop
- Fables which is available at amazon.com.
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