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Aesop's Fables, translated by Laura Gibbs (2002)183. THE NORTH WIND AND THE SUN The Sun and the North Wind were quarrelling with each other as to which
of the two of them would be able to make a man disrobe. The North Wind
went first, blowing fiercely against the man. Yet as the man grew colder
and colder, he only wrapped himself up more snugly in his cloak, clutching
at it tightly so as to keep a firm grip no matter how hard the wind might
be blowing. Thus the North Wind did the man no harm at all and failed
to make him strip off his clothes. Next, the Sun began to shine upon the
man so brightly that the very air of the day grew hotter and hotter. The
man immediately took off his cloak and bundled it up on his shoulders.
 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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