The Fisherman Piping
Aesop Fable: The Fisherman Piping
A fisherman skilled in music took his flute and his nets
to the seashore. Standing on a projecting rock, he played
several tunes in the hope that the fish, attracted by his
melody, would of their own accord dance into his net, which
he had placed below. At last, having long waited in vain,
he laid aside his flute, and casting his net into the sea,
made an excellent haul of fish.
When he saw them leaping
about in the net upon the rock he said: "o you most perverse
creatures, when I piped you would not dance, but
now that I have ceased you do so merrily."
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