

The Boasting Traveler.A Man who had traveled in foreign lands boasted very much, on returningto his own country, of the many wonderful and heroic things he had donein the different places he had visited. Among other things, he saidthat when he was at Rhodes he had leaped to such a distance that no manof his day could leap anywhere near him—and as to that there were inRhodes many persons who saw him do it, and whom he could call aswitnesses. One of the bystanders, interrupting him, said: "Now, my goodman, if this be all true, there is no need of witnesses. Suppose this tobe Rhodes and now for your leap." Cure a boaster by putting his words to the test. From Aesop's Fables |