The Horse and the Ass
By Aesop
A HORSE, proud of his fine trappings, met an Ass on the highway. The Ass being heavily laden moved slowly out of the way. Hardly,
said the Horse: 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 long afterwards the Horse, having become broken-winded, was sent by his owner to the farm. The Ass, seeing him drawing a dung-cart, 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?
Source Book
Aesop's Fables
by Aesop
Translated by unknown
Illustrated by: Harrison Weir, John Tenniel, Ernest Griset, et.al.
Copyright 1881
Published by WM. L. Allison, New York
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