Aesop's Fables: Townsend (1867)
307. The Olive-Tree and the Fig-Tree (Perry
413)
THE OLIVE-TREE ridiculed the Fig-Tree because, while she was green all
the year round, the Fig-Tree changed its leaves with the seasons. A shower
of snow fell upon them, and, finding the Olive full of foliage, it settled
upon its branches and broke them down with its weight, at once despoiling
it of its beauty and killing the tree. But finding the Fig-Tree denuded
of leaves, the snow fell through to the ground, and did not injure it
at all.
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
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