Aesop’s fables

Catherine Henderson shares stories designed to make you think

Hill countryside east of Millstone Edge, Walter Baxter. | Photo: geograph.org.uk / via Wikimedia Commons.

Once a traveller was walking along a track high up in the hills, heading home to her village. There were no trees up there and she could see for miles, all across the valley. She drew her cloak tightly around her so she was almost invisible amongst the grass and rocks and sheep.

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