

The Seaside Travelers.Some travelers, journeying along the sea-shore, climbed to the summit ofa tall cliff, and from thence looking over the sea, saw in the distancewhat they thought was a large ship, and waited in the hope of seeing itenter the harbor. But as the object on which they looked was driven bythe wind nearer to the shore, they found that it could at the most be asmall boat, and not a ship. When, however, it reached the beach, theydiscovered that it was only a large fagot of sticks, and one of themsaid to his companions: "We have waited for no purpose, for after allthere is nothing to see but a fagot." Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities. From Aesop's Fables |