

The Horse and the Loaded Ass.An idle Horse, and an Ass laboring under a heavy burden, were travelingthe road together. The Ass, ready to faint under his heavy load,entreated the Horse to assist him, and lighten his burden, by takingsome of it upon his back. The Horse was ill-natured and refused to doit; upon which the poor Ass tumbled down in the midst of the highway,and expired. The countryman then took the whole burden, and laid itupon the Horse, together with the skin of the dead Ass. Laziness often prepares a burden for its own back. From Aesop's Fables |