The Porker, the Sheep, and the Goat

A young Pig was shut up in a fold-yard with a Goat and a Sheep. On one

occasion the shepherd laid hold of him, when he grunted, and squeaked,

and resisted violently. The Sheep and the Goat complained of his

distressing cries, and said, “He often handles us, and we do not cry

out.” To this he replied, “Your handling and mine are very different

things. He catches you only for your wool, or your milk, but he lays

hold on me for my very life.”

Three hundred Aesop’s fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend · 第 53 / 325 题