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A TRAVELER hired an Ass to convey him to a distant place. The day
being intensely hot, and the sun shining in its strength, the
Traveler stopped to rest, and sought shelter from the heat under the
Shadow of the Ass. As this afforded only protection for one, and as
the Traveler and the owner of the Ass both claimed it, a violent
dispute arose between them as to which of them had the right to the
Shadow. The owner maintained that he had let the Ass only, and not
his Shadow. The Traveler asserted that he had, with the hire of the
Ass, hired his Shadow also. The quarrel proceeded from words to
blows, and while the men fought, the Ass galloped off.
Moral:
In quarreling about the shadow we often lose the substance
The Ass and His Shadow
Fable
A Fable
by
Aesop |
