The Tortoise and the Eagle
A TORTOISE, lazily basking in the sun, complained
to the sea-birds of her hard fate, that
no one would teach her to fly. An Eagle, hovering
near, heard her lamentation and demanded
what reward she would give him if
he would take her aloft and float her in the
air. "I will give you," she said, "all the riches
of the Red Sea." "I will teach you to fly then,"
said the Eagle; and taking her up in his
talons he carried her almost to the clouds
suddenly he let her go, and she fell on a lofty
mountain, dashing her shell to pieces. The
Tortoise exclaimed in the moment of death:
"I have deserved my present fate; for what
had I to do with wings and clouds, who can
with difficulty move about on the earth?' If
men had all they wished, they would be often
ruined.
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