The Trumpeter Taken Prisoner
By Aesop
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 life without cause or without inquiry. I have not slain a single man of your troop. 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,
they said; for while you do not fight yourself, your loud trumpet stirs up all the other soldiers to battle.
Moral:
He who incites strife is as guilty as they who strive.
Source Book
Aesop's Fables
by Aesop
Translated by unknown
Illustrated by: Harrison Weir, John Tenniel, Ernest Griset, et.al.
Copyright 1881
Published by WM. L. Allison, New York
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