The Farmer And The Cranes
Aesop Fable: The Farmer And The Cranes
Some cranes made their feeding grounds on some
plow lands newly sown with wheat. For a long time the
Farmer, brandishing an empty sling, chased them away by
the terror he inspired; but when the birds found that the
sling was only swung in the air, they ceased to take any
notice of it and would not move.
The Farmer, on seeing
this, charged his sling with stones, and killed a great number.
The remaining birds at once forsook his fields, crying
to each other, "It is time for us to be off to Liliput: for this
man is no longer content to scare us, but begins to show
us in earnest what he can do."
If words suffice not, blows must follow.
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