The Fat Man Upon The Thin Donkey (Fable)
By well-wisher
Mon, 15 Aug 2016
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Once there was a man who had a donkey but the man was a glutton who ate and ate until he became very fat whilst at the same time he starved and neglected his donkey.
And whenever the fat man rode upon his thin donkey it found the weight very hard to bear.
One day, however, when the man was riding past a ditch, the donkey took the opportunity to throw the fat man off of his back into the ditch.
"Why you ungrateful animal", yelled the fat man at the donkey, "After all I do for you, how could you treat me so?".
"Do for me?", replied the donkey, "You make yourself fat while you starve me and then you expect me to bear your fat body upon mine which is skin and bone".
The fat man seized his whip and attempted to beat the donkey but the donkey just ran away and the fat man was too fat to catch him.
Moral: If the rich get ever richer while the poor get ever poorer, the day will come when the poor, just like the donkey, get tired and throw the greedy rich off of their backs.
And whenever the fat man rode upon his thin donkey it found the weight very hard to bear.
One day, however, when the man was riding past a ditch, the donkey took the opportunity to throw the fat man off of his back into the ditch.
"Why you ungrateful animal", yelled the fat man at the donkey, "After all I do for you, how could you treat me so?".
"Do for me?", replied the donkey, "You make yourself fat while you starve me and then you expect me to bear your fat body upon mine which is skin and bone".
The fat man seized his whip and attempted to beat the donkey but the donkey just ran away and the fat man was too fat to catch him.
Moral: If the rich get ever richer while the poor get ever poorer, the day will come when the poor, just like the donkey, get tired and throw the greedy rich off of their backs.
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