Three Hundred Æsop's Fables/The Mule

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London: George Routledge and Sons, page 123


THE MULE.

A Mule, frolicsome from want of work and from over much corn, galloped about in a very extravagant manner, and said to himself: "My father surely was a high-mettled racer, and I am his own child in speed and spirit." On the next day, being driven a long journey, and feeling very wearied, he exclaimed in a disconsolate tone: "I must have made a mistake; my father, after all, could have been only an ass."