The One Eyed Doe
A Doe blind in one eye was accustomed to graze as near to the edge
of the cliff as she possibly could, in the hope of securing her greater
safety. She turned her sound eye towards the land that she might get
the earliest tidings of the approach of hunter or hound, and her injured
eye towards the sea, from whence she entertained no anticipation of
danger. Some boatmen sailing by saw her, and taking a successful aim,
mortally wounded her. Yielding up her last breath, she gasped forth
this lament: "O wretched creature that I am! to take such precaution
against the land, and after all to find this seashore, to which I
had come for safety, so much more perilous."
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