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<h2>THE ASS AND HIS MASTERS</h2>
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<p>A Gardener had an Ass which had a very hard time of it, what
with scanty food, heavy loads, and constant beating. The Ass
therefore begged Jupiter to take him away from the Gardener and
hand him over to another master. So Jupiter sent Mercury to the
Gardener to bid him sell the Ass to a Potter, which he did. But the
Ass was as discontented as ever, for he had to work harder than
before: so he begged Jupiter for relief a second time, and Jupiter
very obligingly arranged that he should be sold to a Tanner. But
when the Ass saw what his new master's trade was, he cried in
despair, "Why wasn't I content to serve either of my former
masters, hard as I had to work and badly as I was treated? for they
would have buried me decently, but now I shall come in the end to
the tanning-vat."</p>
<p class="adage">Servants don't know a good master till they have
served a worse.</p>
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