L'Estrange: A Man that Carried his Plough to Ease his Oxen.

A Peasant that had Plow'd himself and his Oxen quite a-weary, mounted an Ass, with the Plough before him, and sent the Oxen to Dinner: The poor ass, he found, was ready to sink under the Load, and so he took up the Plough and laid it upon his own Shoulders. Now, says he to the Ass, Thou may'st carry Me well enough, when I carry the Plough.

Some Brute-Animals have more Understanding than some Men.

Source: L'Estrange 373.

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