The Ass and the Wolf

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The Ass and the Wolf
        AN ASS feeding in a meadow saw a Wolf approaching to seize him,
        and immediately pretended to be lame.
        The Wolf, coming up,
        inquired the cause of his lameness.
        The Ass replied that passing
        through a hedge he had trod with his foot upon a sharp thorn.
        He
        requested that the Wolf pull it out, lest when he ate him it
        should injure his throat.
        The Wolf consented and lifted up the
        foot, and was giving his whole mind to the discovery of the
        thorn, when the Ass, with his heels, kicked his teeth into his
        mouth and galloped away.
        The Wolf, being thus fearfully mauled,
        said, "I am rightly served, for why did I attempt the art of
        healing, when my father only taught me the trade of a butcher?'