On the road: introduction

Jesop by m ball

 On the road:
introduction to“Hell-bent from Paradise” 

One of Jesop's parables: “a man went on a journey”

A man went on a journey, telling his neighbor that he did not know when he would return. “In the meantime,” he told the neighbor, “please use my house as if it were yours,” for the man knew that the neighbor had a wife whose temper often got the better of her, and then his neighbor needed a place to escape to.

     When the man returned from his journey some time later, he found the neighbor had moved into his house and taken up with another woman, whose temper was even hotter than his wife’s. Indeed, the man found the angry woman settled into his house while the neighbor now spent most of his time at home with his wife.

  08.01.17  

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 * Jesop’s Farables (online reproduction of the 1887 edition) are available here.