

The Horse and the Ass.A Horse, proud of his fine trappings, met an Ass on the highway. The Assbeing heavily laden moved slowly out of the way. "Hardly," said theHorse, "can I resist kicking you with my heels." The Ass held his peace,and made only a silent appeal to the justice of the gods. Not longafterward, the Horse, having become broken-winded, was sent by his ownerto the farm. The Ass, seeing him drawing a dung-cart, thus derided him."Where, O boaster, are now all thy gay trappings, thou who art thyselfreduced to the condition you so lately treated with contempt?" From Aesop's Fables |