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Tue, 30 Jan 2018 14:57:34 +0000 |
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1 a traveler hired an ass to convey him to a distant place
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2 the day being intensely hot and the sun shining in its strength the traveler stopped to rest and sought shelter from the heat under the shadow of the ass
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3 as this afforded only protection for one and as the traveler and the owner of the ass both claimed it a violent dispute arose between them as to which of them had the right to the shadow
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4 the owner maintained that he had let the ass only and not his shadow
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5 the traveler asserted that he had with the hire of the ass hired his shadow also
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6 the quarrel proceeded from words to blows and while the men fought the ass galloped off
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