英文版寓言故事：The Goat and the Ass

A MAN once kept a Goat and an Ass.

The Goat, envying the Ass on

account of his greater abundance of food, said, "How shamefully

you are treated:

at one time grinding in the mill, and at another

carrying heavy burdens"; and he further advised him to pretend to

be epileptic and fall into a ditch and so obtain rest.

The Ass

listened to his words, and falling into a ditch, was very much

bruised.

His master, sending for a leech, asked his advice.

He

bade him pour upon the wounds the lungs of a Goat.

They at once

killed the Goat, and so healed the Ass.