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Aesop's Fables, translated by Laura Gibbs (2002)93. THE TRAVELLERS AND THE AXE Two men were walking down the same road together when one of them found
an axe. 'Eureka!' he cried, 'I found it!' The one who didn't find the
axe said to him, 'Don't say "I found it" -- say "we found
it" instead.' A little while later the people who had lost the axe
caught up with them, and when they started to chase the man who was holding
the axe, he said to his fellow traveller, 'We are lost!' The fellow traveller
answered, 'Incorrect! You should say "I am lost," not "we
are lost," since when you found the axe and you said "I"
found it, not "we" found it.'  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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