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These stories provided by children's author Rick Walton's Online Library.
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The Boasting Traveler
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A MAN who had traveled in foreign lands boasted very much, on returning to his own country, of the many wonderful and
heroic feats he had performed in the different places he had visited. Among other things, he said that when he was at
Rhodes he had leaped to such a distance that no man of his day could leap anywhere near him as to that, there were in
Rhodes many persons who saw him do it and whom he could call as witnesses. One of the bystanders interrupted him,
saying: "Now, my good man, if this be all true there is no need of witnesses. Suppose this to be Rhodes, and leap for
us."
(from Aesop's Fables, translated by George Townsend)
Picture Credits
Original bunny climbing rope picture by Paige Miglio (copyright 2000 ©) from One More Bunny authored by Rick Walton.
Original purple monster picture by Renee Williams-Andriani (copyright 1998 ©) from Really, Really Bad School Jokes authored by Rick Walton.
Original bullfrog seated picture by Chris McAllister (copyright 1999 ©) from Bullfrog Pops! authored by Rick Walton.
Electronic modifications by Ann Walton.
Last updated: September 27, 2003
