The Old Woman and the Wine-Jar

AN OLD WOMAN found an empty jar which had lately been full of prime old

wine and which still retained the fragrant smell of its former

contents. She greedily placed it several times to her nose, and drawing

it backwards and forwards said, “O most delicious! How nice must the

Wine itself have been, when it leaves behind in the very vessel which

contained it so sweet a perfume!”

The memory of a good deed lives.

Three hundred Aesop’s fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend · 第 101 / 325 题