The Boasting Traveler
Aesop Fable: The Boasting Traveler
A man who had traveled in foreign lands boasted very much,
on returning to his own country, of the many wonderful
and heroic feats he had performed in the different places
he had visited.
Among other things, he said that when he
was at Rhodes he had leaped to such a distance that no
man of his day could leap anywhere near him as to that,
there were in Rhodes many persons who saw him do it and
whom he could call as witnesses.
One of the bystanders
interrupted him, saying: "Now, my good man, if this be all
true there is no need of witnesses. Suppose this to be
Rhodes, and leap for us."
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