The Goat and the Ass 
    
    
      A MAN once kept a Goat and an Ass.  The Goat, envying the Ass on
    account of his greater abundance of food, said, "How shamefully
    you are treated:  at one time grinding in the mill, and at another
    carrying heavy burdens"; and he further advised him to pretend to
    be epileptic and fall into a ditch and so obtain rest.  The Ass
    listened to his words, and falling into a ditch, was very much
    bruised.  His master, sending for a leech, asked his advice.  He
    bade him pour upon the wounds the lungs of a Goat.  They at once
    killed the Goat, and so healed the Ass.  
    


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