attr. Æsop, Three Hundred Aesop's Fables — The Tortoise and the Eagle (1887)
“ A Tortoise, lazily basking in the sun, complained to the sea-birds of her hard fate, that no one would teach her to fly. An Eagle hovering near, heard her lamentation, and demanded what reward she would give him, if he would take her aloft, and float her in the air. ”
