{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/aesop/aes184.htm","path":"cla/aesop/aes184.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/aesop/aes184.htm","text":"A MULE, frolicsome from lack of work and from too much corn, galloped about in a very extravagant manner, and said to himself: \"My father surely was a high-mettled racer, and I am his own child in speed and spirit.\" On the next day, being driven a long journey, and feeling very wearied, he exclaimed in a disconsolate tone: \"I must have made a mistake; my father, after all, could have been only an ass.\"","title":"The Mule","type":"page"}