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Aesop's Fables: Townsend (1867)117. The Ass Carrying the Image (Perry 182) AN ASS once carried through the streets of a city a famous wooden Image,
to be placed in one of its Temples. As he passed along, the crowd made
lowly prostration before the Image. The Ass, thinking that they bowed
their heads in token of respect for himself, bristled up with pride, gave
himself airs, and refused to move another step. The driver, seeing him
thus stop, laid his whip lustily about his shoulders and said, 'O you
perverse dull-head! it is not yet come to this, that men pay worship to
an Ass.'
George Fyler Townsend's translation of the fables, first published in 1867, is in the public domain and can be found at many websites, including Project Gutenberg. Illustrations come from: Aesop's Fables, by George Fyler Townsend, with illustrations by Harrison Weir, 1867, at Google Books. |
