The Donkey And His Masters
Aesop Fable: The Donkey And His Masters
A Donkey, belonging to an herb-seller who gave him too little
food and too much work made a petition to Jupiter to be
released from his present service and provided with another
master. Jupiter, after warning him that he would repent
his request, caused him to be sold to a tile-maker.
Shortly afterwards, finding that he had heavier loads to carry and
harder work in the brick-field, he petitioned for another
change of master.
Jupiter, telling him that it would be the
last time that he could grant his request, ordained that he
be sold to a tanner.
The Donkey found that he had fallen into
worse hands, and noting his master’s occupation, said,
groaning: "It would have been better for me to have been
either starved by the one, or to have been overworked by
the other of my former masters, than to have been bought
by my present owner, who will even after I am dead tan my
hide, and make me useful to him."
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