The Horse And The Donkey

Aesop Fable: The Horse And The Donkey


A horse, proud of his fine trappings, met an Donkey on the highway. The Donkey, being heavily laden, moved slowly out of the way. "Hardly," said the Horse, "can I resist kicking you with my heels."

The Donkey held his peace, and made only a silent appeal to the justice of the gods. Not long afterwards the Horse, having become broken-winded, was sent by his owner to the farm.

The Donkey, seeing him drawing a dungcart, thus derided him: "Where, O boaster, are now all thy gay trappings, thou who are thyself reduced to the condition you so lately treated with contempt?’



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