{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/aesop/aes244.htm","path":"cla/aesop/aes244.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/aesop/aes244.htm","text":"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.\"","title":"The Trumpeter Taken Prisoner","type":"page"}