The Goat and the Ass

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The Goat and the Ass
        A MAN once kept a Goat and an Ass.
        The Goat, envying the Ass on
        account of his greater abundance of food, said, "How shamefully
        you are treated:
        at one time grinding in the mill, and at another
        carrying heavy burdens"; and he further advised him to pretend to
        be epileptic and fall into a ditch and so obtain rest.
        The Ass
        listened to his words, and falling into a ditch, was very much
        bruised.
        His master, sending for a leech, asked his advice.
        He
        bade him pour upon the wounds the lungs of a Goat.
        They at once
        killed the Goat, and so healed the Ass.