Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Fly and the Draught-Mule

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3900260Æsop's Fables: A New Translation — The Fly and the Draught-MuleVernon S. Vernon JonesAesop

THE FLY AND THE DRAUGHT-MULE

A FLY sat on one of the shafts of a cart and said to the Mule who was pulling it, “How slow you are! Do mend your pace, or I shall have to use my sting as a goad.” The Mule was not in the least disturbed. “Behind me, in the cart,” said he, “sits my master. He holds the reins, and flicks me with his whip, and him I obey, but I don’t want any of your impertinence. I know when I may dawdle and when I may not.”