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The Trumpeter Taken Prisoner
Title | The Trumpeter Taken Prisoner |
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Original Title | Σαλπιγκτής |
Original Author | Αἴσωπος |
Original ID | trans-4712.xml |
Book Author | George Fyler Townsend |
Chapter Nr. | 243 |
Language code | eng |
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 trumpet stirs all the others to battle."
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