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a traveler hired an ass to convey him to a distant place
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
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
the owner maintained that he had let the ass only and not his shadow
the traveler asserted that he had with the hire of the ass hired his shadow also
the quarrel proceeded from words to blows and while the men fought the ass galloped off