The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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"What an ass I am!" he muttered; then, "Phew!

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VII "Brothers, when Christ Himself was on the earth going up to Jerusalem, He rode on the colt of an ass, and the blind and the lame and the sick came to Him, and He healed them.

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"So you're taking lessons in the art of war from the professor who slew an army with the jaw-bone of an ass?" said Don Camillo.

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I thought perhaps if I did I should be ass enough to fall in love.

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"By yingo, Ay plumb forget about te tarn jung yack-ass Harlan.

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('Ass of a Lobkowitz!

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Ass of a Lobkowitz!')

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But he's an infernal little ass," said Sir Winterton.

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As for this business about Lady Mildmay, if Mildmay likes to make such an ass of himself he must take the consequences."

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The end is indisputably attractive, and you aren't such an ass as to try to indicate the means.

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At last he said confidentially, "I've a sort of feeling that I've made an ass of myself."

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I will forgive your having denied yourself; I will forgive your having become a presumptuous ass--making a show with lamps that were meant for your betters; and I will not deprive you of my advice, provided, be it understood, I duly get my honorarium.

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When I left you a few years ago, I was like the wild ass in the desert, who scents a far-off fountain.

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that I shall sit eating bread and water, while you are feeding upon the fat of the land, and laughing at the old ass Hippus?

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Because I have seen him several times in the Papal chapels with a certain air of an ass and certain grimaces of a blockhead that cannot happen to a man of talent.

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_The Mysterious Stranger_ IT WAS even upon as ignoble an animal as a Barbary ass, goaded by a dusky little islander almost in a state of nudity, that, an hour before sunset on the day of his arrival, the English traveller approached the casino of the Consul's daughter, for there a note from Major Ponsonby had invited him to repair, to be introduced to his daughter, and to taste his oranges.

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Towards sunset, however, mounted on his Barbary ass, Mr. Ferrers again appeared at the gate of the casino, as mild and agreeable as before.

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In consequence of their arrival, Mr. Ferrers discontinued dining with his accustomed host; and resumed his old habit of riding up to the casino, every evening, on his Barbary ass, to eat oranges and talk to the Consul's daughter.

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"I can not make out what you can see in that conceited ass?" he said to her, when Alan Tremaine had been living at the Moat House for something over a year.

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"But he is such an ass!

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"By Jove!" he said to himself, looking into the gray eyes that were so full of sympathy just then, "what an ass the man was to talk to such a woman as this about art and philosophy and high-falutin' of that sort!

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"Then Alan was an ass.

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I must have expressed myself badly if I conveyed such an impression to you as that, and you would indeed be justified in writing me down an ass.

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The comparison of the will unable to act between two equally balanced motives to an ass dying of hunger between two equal and equidistant bundles of hay is not found in his works, and may have been invented by his opponents to ridicule his determinism.

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If we are to test vitality in muscular terms at all--that in itself being a quite indefensible assumption--we must do so in terms of endurance, and not in terms of horse power or ass power, at any given moment.

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There is between man and dog a kinship of spirit that cannot be denied 245 FOREWORD _"And in the lion or the frog-- In all the life of moor or fen-- In ass and peacock, stork and dog, He read similitudes of men.

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Even donkeys betray tendencies toward musical efforts, and seem to be aroused by music at least temporarily to a higher mental plane than Balaam was inclined to ascribe to his wise ass.

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Balaam was rebuked for his cruelty by an ass; and David even called upon the animals to aid in praising Jehovah!

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For man is far the greater ass of the two!

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"What am I going to do if one of them comes up and makes an ass of himself?" he demanded.

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But if she expects me to go out like Balaam's ass and eat dandelions, I'd rather starve."

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I saw that ass Culver and a policeman chasing you in another car.

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He seemed struggling with a determination not to indulge a strong propensity to laugh; but, though pretending to be occupied with a book, his features at length gave way at some irresistible sally, and throwing his volume at the orator, he exclaimed-- "How can you be such an ass, Frank!"

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He has not tried a bit: I have seen him lately with his book before him, dreaming about some wonderful story of some enchanted ass, or some giantess Mamouka, I suppose; or imagining some new ode to some incomprehensible, un-come-at-able Dulcinea.

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By chance[2] he had put an ox and an ass into the same stall; and being seated near them, he heard the ox say to the ass: "How happy do I think your lot.

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* * * * * Here the grand vizier said to Schehera-zade: "You are, my child, just like this ass, and would expose yourself to destruction."

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"But I am an old ass.

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Cortina, a renowned painter, was nicknamed, by his associates, 'Ass' Head,' on account of his stupidity, when a boy.

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He chose to preserve a sullen silence, probably believing that he is so securely seated in the saddle which his brethren have girthed upon the back of "a strong ass" that; there is no danger that the animal will give him a fall.

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daughter of Jerusalem: behold thy king cometh unto thee: he is just and saved, lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass."

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I maintain that a man's riding upon an ass into Jerusalem, is not sufficient to prove him the Messiah.

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[fn16 Mr. Everett recommends to me to adopt as an appropriate motto for the second edition of my first work, a passage from Celsus which speaks of the dispute, between the Jews and Christians as a "quarrel about the shadow of an ass." p. 327. of Mr. Everett's work.

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How then has it happened that Mr. Everett's Coreligionists have for fifteen hundred years persecuted, despised, oppressed, trampled underfoot millions, plundered and massacred hundreds of thousands, tortured, racked, and roasted alive thousands of the Jewish nation; and all in a quarrel about "the shadow of an ass!"

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For my own part I do not consider it as a quarrel about "the shadow of an ass," I rather think it has a much greater resemblance to a quarrel about an ass in the Lion's skin; in which quarrel the Christians have shown themselves to be every thing but the Fox in the Fable upon that subject.]

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25.00 Ass'n., by Miss Abby W. Turner, _for Share, Tougaloo U._ Reedville.

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The pathetic lines of Goethe might seem to be written for his own case: "Wer nie sein Brod mit Thränen ass, Wer nicht die kummervollen Nächte Auf seinem Bette weinend sass, Der kennt euch nicht, ihr himmlischen Mächte.

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Titania wakened with eyes fixed on Bottom, who, by Puck's art, had an ass's head.

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The lungs of an ass, when burned, drive evil spirits away.

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By certain charms, magicians could place a horse or an ass's head upon a man's shoulders, and change the head of an inferior animal into that of a human pate.

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25.00 Ass'n, by Mrs. M. J. Graham Reading.

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Ch., 25.00 Woman's Ass'n.

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20.00 Woman's Ass'n, 10, _for Student Aid, Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ and 10 _for Indian Student Aid, Santee, Neb._ ------ 83.75 IOWA, $281.70.

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He is first tricked himself by Zeynab, but continues his pursuit of her, and though at times he is transformed into the shapes of an ass, a bear, and a dog by the magic arts of Azariah the Jew, eventually he succeeds, with the aid of the Jew's daughter, in obtaining the property required, and finally marries Zeynab, the Jewess, and two other women.

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V. Once a lion, a fox, and a wolf were associates in the chase, and after they had killed an ass, a gazelle, and a hare, the lion said to the wolf: 'Divide the prey among us;' whereon the latter said: 'The ass will be yours, the hare the fox's, and the gazelle mine;' and the lion knocked his eye out.

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'When you perceive that a man's nature is to say "Yes" when you say "No," and "No" if you say "Yes," compare him to an ass, because when you approach him he recedes, and when you move away he will move towards you.

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(_Shrieking_) You ass!

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Let him call a horse an animal, if he chooses--or an ass--or a cow--but not an eagle--as he loves us, not an eagle; let him call it a bird--the Bird of Jove--the Queen or King of the Sky--or anything else he chooses--but not an animal--no--no--no--not an animal, as he hopes to prosper, to be praised in Maga, embalmed and immortalised.

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Why--Imagination, thou art an ass, and thy long ears at all times greedy of deception!

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In the sunk story, immediately below _that_, having been for a season consumptive, we kept a Jenny ass and her daughter--and though we believe it was not unheard around Moray and Ainslie Places, and even in Charlotte Square, we cannot charge our memory with an audit of their bray.

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Yonder ass licking his lips at a thistle, sees but water for him to drink in Windermere a-glow with the golden lights of setting suns.

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While on the subject of animals let me state that on this first day a goat, an ass, another camel, and numerous pariah dogs added themselves to our ration strength.

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But he always has been something of an ass.

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Said he aloud--"A horse is not an ass; and a talking horse is one of his kind.

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This _bo[u]zu_ is part hare, part ass, part swine.

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He sent his disciples to take away from the place where they were tied an ass and her colt; and he told them how to escape should they be caught at it, by saying: 'The Lord hath need of them.'

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And farther on (Luke 14:5): "Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fall into a pit, and will not immediately draw him out on the Sabbath-day?"

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A beautiful young woman, carrying in her arms an infant gorgeously dressed, was mounted on an ass.

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The Waits--Their origin--Ned Ward on them--Corporation Waits--York Waits (17th century)--Essay on Waits--Westminster Waits--Modern Waits 63 CHAPTER IX Christ-tide Carols--The days of Yule--A Carol for Christ-tide--"Lullaby"--The Cherry-tree Carol--Dives and Lazarus 70 CHAPTER X Christmas Eve--Herrick thereon--The Yule Log--Folk-lore thereon--The Ashen Faggot--Christmas Candles--Christmas Eve in the Isle of Man--Hunting the Wren--Divination by Onions and Sage--A Custom at Aston--"The Mock"--Decorations and Kissing Bunch--"Black Ball"--Guisers and Waits--Ale Posset 75 CHAPTER XI Christmas Eve in North Notts--Wassailing the Fruit Trees--Wassail Songs--Wassailing in Sussex--Other Customs--King at Downside College--Christ-tide Carol--Midnight Mass--The Manger--St. Francis of Assisi 84 CHAPTER XII Decorating with Evergreens--Its Origin and Antiquity--Mistletoe in Churches--The permissible Evergreens--The Holly--"Holly and Ivy"--"Here comes Holly"--"Ivy, chief of Trees"--"The Contest of the Ivy and the Holly"--Holly Folk-lore--Church Decorations--To be kept up till Candlemas day 91 CHAPTER XIII Legends of the Nativity--The Angels--The Birth--The Cradles--The Ox and Ass--Legends of Animals--The Carol of St. Stephen--Christmas Wolves--Dancing for a Twelve-months--Underground Bells--The Fiddler and the Devil 97 CHAPTER XIV The Glastonbury Thorn, its Legend--Cuttings from it--Oaks coming into leaf on Christmas day--Folk-lore--Forecast, according to the days of the week on which Christmas falls--Other Folk-lore thereon 105 CHAPTER XV Withholding Light--"Wesley Bob"--Wassail Carol--Presents in Church--Morris Dancers--"First Foot"--Red-haired Men--Lamprey Pie--"Hodening"--Its Possible Origin--The "Mari Lhoyd" 111 CHAPTER XVI Curious Gambling Customs in Church--Boon granted--Sheaf of Corn for the Birds--Crowning of the Cock--"The Lord Mayor of Pennyless Cove"--"Letting in Yule"--Guisards--Christmas in the Highlands--Christmas in Shetland--Christmas in Ireland 117 CHAPTER XVII Ordinance against out-door Revelry--Marriage of a Lord of Misrule--Mummers and Mumming--Country Mummers--Early Play--Two modern Plays 125 CHAPTER XVIII A Christmas jest--Ben Jonson's Masque of Christmas--Milton's Masque of Comus--Queen Elizabeth and the Masters of Defence 138 CHAPTER XIX The Lord of Misrule--The "Emperor" and "King" at Oxford--Dignity of the Office--Its abolition in the City of London--The functions of a Lord of Misrule--Christmas at the Temple--A grand Christmas there 143 CHAPTER XX A riotous Lord of Misrule at the Temple--Stubbes on Lords of Misrule--The Bishops ditto--Mumming at Norwich 1440--Dancing at the Inns of Court--Dancing at Christmas--The Cushion Dance 155 CHAPTER XXI Honey Fairs--Card-playing at Christmas--Throwing the Hood--Early Religious Plays--Moralities--Story of a Gray's Inn Play--The first Pantomime--Spectacular drama--George Barnwell--Story respecting this Play 162 CHAPTER XXII Profusion of Food at Christ-tide--Old English Fare--Hospitality--Proclamations for People to spend Christ-tide at their Country Places--Roast Beef--Boar's Head--Boar's Head Carol--Custom at Queen's College, Oxon.--Brawn--Christmas Pie--Goose Pie--Plum Pudding--Plum Porridge--Anecdotes of Plum Pudding--Large one--Mince Pies--Hackin--Folk-lore--Gifts at Christ-tide--Yule Doughs--Cop-a-loaf--Snap-dragon 169 CHAPTER XXIII The First Carol--Anglo-Norman Carol--Fifteenth-Century Carol--"The Twelve Good Joys of Mary"--Other Carols--"A Virgin most Pure"--Carol of Fifteenth Century--"A Christenmesse Carroll" 180 CHAPTER XXIV Christmas Gifts forbidden in the City of London--Charles II.

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Philemon's cottage was turn'd into gold, Into gold, for harbouring Jove: Rich men their houses up for to keep, For to keep, might their greatness move; But, in the city, they say, they do live, Where gold by handfulls away they do give;-- I'll away, And thither, therefore, I purpose to pass, Hoping at London to find the Golden Ass.

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The Christ is lying on straw between the ox and ass, Mary and Joseph bending over Him; the shepherds are kneeling in adoration, and the angels, hovering above, are supposed to be singing the _gloria in excelsis_.

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Before his death he celebrated the sacred Birth-night in the woods, where a stable had been prepared with an ox and an ass, and a crib for an altar.

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CHAPTER XIII Legends of the Nativity--The Angels--The Birth--The Cradles--The Ox and Ass--Legends of Animals--The Carol of St. Stephen--Christmas Wolves--Dancing for a Twelve-months--Underground Bells--The Fiddler and the Devil.

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The ox and ass are indispensable accessories to a picture of the Nativity, and it is said that their introduction rests on an old tradition mentioned by St. Jerome, and also on a text of prophecy: "The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib.

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One, a tawny woman, with no other protection for her head than a high but perfectly clean cap, was going past us, driving an ass, with the panniers loaded with manure.

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He called on me, shook hands cordially, and said at once, without any preliminaries, "I am substantially an obscure person, but I have at least one distinction to my credit of such colossal dimensions that it entitles me to immortality-to wit: I refused a book of yours, and for this I stand without competitor as the prize ass of the nineteenth century."

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I explained to him that he was an ass, but he stuck to his proposition, and I said, "Go on and try it, and see."

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All human beings would like to dress in loose and comfortable and highly colored and showy garments, and they had their desire until a century ago, when a king, or some other influential ass, introduced sombre hues and discomfort and ugly designs into masculine clothing.

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I saw in a minute haa it wor: an owd ass had gotten in during th' noight and done all th' mischief.

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Ah, friends, the devil is like an owd ass, goin' skulking and shuffling abaat in th' dark when other folks are in bed sleeping, and he is always trying to get into th' Lord's garden and spoil th' flaars; yo' may mend th' fence as much as yo loike, but if you don't fasten th' gate, he'll be in and undo all th' good wark in your hearts.

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An ass, who observed this, thought that the dog amused himself by barking.

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The doctor examined the animal closely, and said, "Friend, you must brand this ass forthwith, else he will soon go into fits and die."

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"Ass!"

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"My good fellow," said a townsman whom they met, "is that ass your own?"

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The poor ass was very uncomfortable, and tried hard to get off the pole.

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[Pg 22] THE ASS AND HIS DRIVER An Ass was being driven along a road leading down the mountain side, when he suddenly took it into his silly head to choose his own path.

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Just as he was about to leap over, his master caught him by the tail and tried to pull him back, but the stubborn Ass would not yield and pulled with all his might.

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With that he let go, and the foolish Ass tumbled head over heels down the mountain side.

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THE LION AND THE ASS One day as the Lion walked proudly down a forest aisle, and the animals respectfully made way for him, an Ass brayed a scornful remark as he passed.

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It was mounted on an Ass adorned with garlands and gorgeous trappings, and a grand procession of priests and pages followed it through the streets.

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"Go along with you, you stupid Ass," he cried.

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At the ford the Ass again tumbled over; but when he had scrambled to his feet, it was a very disconsolate Ass that dragged himself homeward under a load ten times heavier than before.

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THE ASS, THE FOX, AND THE LION An Ass and a Fox had become close comrades, and were constantly in each other's company.

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[Pg 50] THE LION AND THE ASS A Lion and an Ass agreed to go hunting together.

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[Pg 53] THE WOLF AND THE ASS An Ass was feeding in a pasture near a wood when he saw a Wolf lurking in the shadows along the hedge.

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THE ASS AND THE GRASSHOPPERS One day as an Ass was walking in the pasture, he found some Grasshoppers chirping merrily in a grassy corner of the field.

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Naturally, the poor foolish Ass soon died.

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"My father was an Ass after all."

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[Pg 79] THE ASS AND THE LAP DOG There was once an Ass whose Master also owned a Lap Dog.

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