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Aesop's Fables, translated by Laura Gibbs (2002)

277. THE STAKE AND THE WALL
Perry 270 (Chambry 337)

A wall who was being gouged by a stake exclaimed, 'Hey! Why are you making this gash in me, when I never did you any harm?' The stake answered, 'It's not my fault! Blame the man who is pounding me so hard from behind.'


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.