The Oxen and the Axle-Trees
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| Translated by George Fyler Townsend (1887) |
A heavy wagon was being dragged along a country lane by a team of Oxen. The Axle-trees groaned and creaked terribly; whereupon the Oxen, turning round, thus addressed the wheels: "Hullo there! why do you make so much noise? We bear all the labor, and we, not you, ought to cry out."
- Those who suffer most cry out the least.
