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Aesop's Fables: Townsend (1867)156. The Traveler and Fortune (Perry 174) A TRAVELER wearied from a long journey lay down, overcome with fatigue,
on the very brink of a deep well. Just as he was about to fall into the
water, Dame Fortune, it is said, appeared to him and waking him from his
slumber thus addressed him: 'Good Sir, pray wake up: for if you fall into
the well, the blame will be thrown on me, and I shall get an ill name
among mortals; for I find that men are sure to impute their calamities
to me, however much by their own folly they have really brought them on
themselves.' 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. |
