A Goatherd had sought to bring back a stray Goat to his flock. He whistled and sounded his horn in vain. The straggler paid no attention to his summons. At last the Goatherd threw a stone, and breaking its horn, begged the Goat not to tell his master. The Goat replied: “Why, you silly fellow, the horn will speak though I be silent.”

From Aesop’s Fables, translated by George Fyler Townsend, Collins Classics, London: Harper Press, 2011, p. 37.