

The Trumpeter taken Prisoner.A Trumpeter, bravely leading on the soldiers, was captured by the enemy.He cried out to his captors: "Pray spare me, and do not take my lifewithout cause or without injury. I have not slain a single man of yourtroop. I have no arms, and carry nothing but this one brass trumpet.""That is the very reason for which you should be put to death," theysaid, "for while you do not fight yourself, your loud trumpet stirs upall the other soldiers to battle." He who incites strife is as guilty as they who strive. From Aesop's Fables |