mmxgn@0: a traveler hired an ass to convey him to a distant place
mmxgn@0: 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
mmxgn@0: 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
mmxgn@0: the owner maintained that he had let the ass only and not his shadow
mmxgn@0: the traveler asserted that he had with the hire of the ass hired his shadow also
mmxgn@0: the quarrel proceeded from words to blows and while the men fought the ass galloped off