The Oxen and the Axle-Trees 
    
    
      A HEAVY WAGON was being dragged along a country lane by a team of
    Oxen.  The Axle-trees groaned and creaked terribly; whereupon the
    Oxen, turning round, thus addressed the wheels:  "Hullo there! why
    do you make so much noise? We bear all the labor, and we, not
    you, ought to cry out."  
    
    
    	Those who suffer most cry out the least.  
    


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