{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/aesop/aes223.htm","path":"cla/aesop/aes223.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/aesop/aes223.htm","text":"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 dungcart, 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?'","title":"The Horse and the Ass","type":"page"}