An Eagle sat high in the branches of a great Oak. She seemed very sad and drooping for an Eagle. A Kite saw her.
“Why do you look so woebegone?” asked the Kite.
“I want to get married,” replied the Eagle, “and I can’t find a mate who can provide for me as I should like.”
“Take me,” said the Kite; “I am very strong, stronger even than you!”
“Do you really think you can provide for me?” asked the Eagle eagerly.
“Why, of course,” replied the Kite. “That would be a very simple matter. I am so strong I can carry away an Ostrich in my talons as if it were a feather!”
The Eagle accepted the Kite immediately. But after the wedding, when the Kite flew away to find something to eat for his bride, all he had when he returned, was a tiny Mouse.
“Is that the Ostrich you talked about?” said the Eagle in disgust.
“To win you I would have said and promised anything,” replied the Kite.
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Source
“THE EAGLE & THE KITE” by Æsop. (c600BCE). AESOP’S FABLES for CHILDREN: ILLUSTRATED by MILO WINTER (2008 Unabridged Republication of The ÆSOP for CHILDREN (1919), Chicago: Rand McNally & Co.), p. 93. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc. > Used in #AESOP’S FABLES for CHILDREN. [Bibliography]
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