Aesop's tales #
20 - The One-Eyed Doe
A Doe had had
the misfortune to lose one of her eyes, and could not see any one approaching
her on that side.
So to avoid
any danger she always used to feed on a high cliff near the sea, with her sound
eye looking towards the land. By this means she could see whenever the hunters
approached her on land, and often escaped by this means.
But the
hunters found out that she was blind of one eye, and hiring a boat rowed under
the cliff where she used to feed and shot her from the sea. "Ah,"
cried she with her dying voice, you cannot escape your fate."
Moral: Trouble comes from the direction we least expect it.
