The Goat and The Donkey
Aesop | Greece
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In a distant land, there lived a man who owned a Goat and an Donkey. The Goat always looked at the Donkey and felt a bit jealous because the Donkey had more food than him.
One day, the Goat said to the Donkey, "You work so hard! You're always busy doing tough tasks like carrying heavy loads or grinding grain at the mill. Why don't you pretend to be very sick and fall into a ditch? That way, you could rest for a while."
The Donkey thought this sounded like a good idea, so he followed the Goat's advice. He pretended to be ill and fell into a ditch. However, instead of getting rest, he got badly hurt.
The man who owned them saw the Donkey in pain. He was worried and quickly called for a doctor. The doctor advised, "To heal the Donkey, you need to apply the lungs of a Goat on his wounds."
Without hesitation, the man followed the doctor's advice. He sacrificed the life of the Goat, taking its lungs to treat the wounds of the Donkey. Miraculously, the Donkey's injuries healed, but it marked the unfortunate end of the jealous Goat who had believed the Donkey had a better life.
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