The Ass carrying the Image
An Ass once carried through the streets of the city a famous
wooden Image, to be placed in one of its temples. The crowd as he passed along
made lowly prostration before the Image. The Ass, thinking that they bowed
their heads in token of respect for him, bristled up with pride and gave
himself airs, and refused to move another step. The driver, seeing him thus
stop, laid his whip lustily about his shoulders and said: "O you perverse
dull-head! it is not yet come to this, that men pay worship to an Ass."
