The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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Fortunately, no member of my family has thus far evinced any symptom of the poodle mania, so akin to the singular malady which reduced poor Titania to the abject adoration of ass-headed Bottom.

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Woman's Home Miss'y Ass'n, to const.

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Freedmen's Mission Ass'n, Bbl.

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Louise, herself, assures us over and over again that she "_feels like a dog_," a statement no self-respecting publisher's reader would allow to pass, yet I was told by a friend of King Frederick of Denmark that he loved to compare his "all-highest person" to a "_mut_," and I remember a letter from Victor Emanuel II to his great Minister, Count Cavour, solemnly protesting that he (the King) was "_no ass_."

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I was an ass not to have thought of it long ago.

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The inspector, to refute him, unwisely alluded to the Scripture account of Balaam's ass in the twenty-second chapter of Numbers; whereupon, the dominie nearly swooned at the impiety of comparing that inspired animal with a secular beast like Grimm's wolf.

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The following extract is from an "Essay on the '15": "_The Rising of '15 was a failure because the Old Pretender was an unmitigated ass.

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Fancy an ass trying to take charge of a Rebellion!_" A genial gentleman, Mr. Sneyd-Kynnersley, who retired from the Inspectorate some years ago, published in 1908 a book of choice reminiscences, containing some good specimens of schoolboy answers.

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There are other authors, however, will have it, that he died of immoderate laughter, seeing an ass eat figs out of a dish, and upon which he commanded they should give him drink.

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When a man moves as I do amid a constant whirl of gilt-edged engagements----" "Ass!" said Charles, and pocketed the tickets.

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Surprising indeed, Dick, nor do I in the least doubt it; and why not, as well as Balaam's ass, speak?

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I will remove your suspense.--There is a Mr. Worthnought, a thing by some people call'd a man, a beau, a fine gentleman, a smart fellow; and by others a coxcomb, a puppy, a baboon and an ass.

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more than any other merchant in the city; and as for that stupid proverb, money is the root of all evil, 'tis well enough for those to say so, who have none; for my part, I know that much of the good things of this world is better than not enough--that a man can live longer upon a hundred thousand pounds than one thousand pounds--that if, the more we have the more we want, the more we have the more we make--and that it is better to make hay while the sun shines _against_ a rainy day, when I shall be upon my last legs, than to work and toil like an ass _in_ the rain; so it plainly appears that money is the root of all good;--that's my logic.--I long to see the young rogue tho'--I dare say he looks very like his father;--but, had I thought old Trueman wou'd have us'd me so ill, I wou'd not have wrote for him yet; for he shall not have his old sweetheart:--if he offers to disobey me in this respect, by my body, I'll disinherit the ungracious dog immediately.

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My proper sirname is Humphry Cubb; why our family is the most largest family within the circumroundibus of fifty miles, and the most grandest too, tho' I say it that shou'dn't say it; for my father's father's great-grandfather was a just-ass of the peace, when King George the third was a sucking baby, and, therefore, as father says, a greater _man_ then, than he was, ha, ha, ha.

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Dick Worthnought, esquire, thou art an ass and a liar; and, what is worse than both,--as poor as poverty.

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"Bob," and the long Calmar straightened in his chair, "I've been an ass.

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Let us hear his own account: "Being thus an ass, in the midst of asses, and under an ass, I translated Cornelius Nepos, some of Virgil's _Eclogues_, and such-like; we wrote stupid, nonsensical themes, so that in any well-directed school we should have been a wretched fourth class.

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So take no further notice of this matter; for a blow from a published coward carries no more disgrace with it than a bite from a dog, or a kick from an ass.

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A commander ought to be on the watch for any mistake that his antagonist may commit, but he is not justified in setting that antagonist down as an ass.

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Probably you'll marry stodgily, or else you'll go to the other extreme and make an even bigger ass of yourself."

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Probably you'll marry stodgily, or else you'll go to the other extreme and make an even bigger ass of yourself."

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Probably you'll marry stodgily, or else you'll go to the other extreme and make an even bigger ass of yourself."

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Probably you'll marry stodgily, or else you'll go to the other extreme and make an even bigger ass of yourself."

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Flight of Both--Difference between a tame Donkey and a wild Ass.--Carried off to the Mountains.--The headlong Course.--The Mountain Pass.--The Journey's End.--Ill-omened Place.--Confounded by a new Terror.--The Brigands.

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_Flight of Bob.--Difference between a tame Donkey and a wild Ass.--Carried off to the Mountains.--The Headlong Course.--The Mountain Pass.--The Journey's End.--Ill-omened Place.--Confounded by a new Terror.--The Brigands._ When the donkey first bounded off, the feelings of Bob were nothing but pure, unmitigated delight.

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He was not a donkey--he was an ass--spirited, slender, sinewy, and fleet as a race-horse.

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But an ass!

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Was an ass possessed of any sense of decency--any conscience?

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and would this ass, merely out of that obstinacy, keep on running for all the rest of the day?

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This he repeated over and over, but without any success; and at length he reflected that _whoa_ was English, a language which, of course, an Italian ass could not understand.

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He hoped thug to find help--to get a horse or an ass, and also something to eat, and thus set forth for Salerno.

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The noise of me ass trotting over the bridge roused the two men, and they walked across and caught him.

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Strange to say, this animal, that had punished poor Bob's little trick so fearfully, showed no resentment whatever at his present treatment, but stood there, no longer the fiery wild ass, but the very living image of a patient donkey.

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In the minds of some of them, however, these side-roads suggested a fear, that Bob's ass might have turned off into some one of them; but of course, as they were all alike, they could not conjecture which one would have been taken by the runaway.

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He was no longer the fiery, wild ass of the day before, which had borne him helplessly away from his friends, but a tractable animal, with sufficient spirit, it is true, yet with all the signs of subordination and obedience.

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Carse, you little devil--" "Oh, don't be an ass!"

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AND ASS'T SURGEON] An interesting feature of the issue of rations was the method of supplying the fresh beef.

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The vender of tape and calico, seemed to feast his eyes, if not his appetite, by gazing on the lovely countenance of his young hostess; and after some slight hesitation, commenced talking to her of theatres, and balls, and assemblies, and fashionable intelligence in general; but Balaam's ass, if she had marched into the room and commenced an oration in the original Hebrew, or Chaldee, or Syro-Phoenician, or whatever might have been _its_ vernacular tongue in which she formerly addressed her master, could not have been more unintelligible.

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I have at my pen's end six or eight very desperate "cases" of his knowledge of "practical seamanship" and maritime affairs, which may be found in the "Red Rover" and "Water Witch" _passim_; but those animals, vulgarly called critics, but more politely and properly at present, reviewers, whom the New York Mirror defines to be "great dogs, that go about unchained and growl at every thing they do not comprehend," these dogs have dragged the lion's hide partly off, and ascertained, what every man, to whom the Almighty has vouchsafed an ordinary share of common sense, had all along suspected, that it covered an ass.

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And when _George_, now a colonel and on the verge of a quarrel with the second _Mrs. Coventry_ about a young ass of a _tertium quid_, caught sight of poor _Rafella_ at a window in the Bazaar, he was so genuinely upset that he rushed back to his wife, forgave her (nothing in particular) and lived happily ever after.

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That great critic pronounced Mr. Pope was a little ass, a fool, a coward, a Papist, and therefore a hater of Scripture, and so forth.

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315, 316):- "'Twas by a poor ass, with a couple of large panniers at his back, who had just turned in to collect eleemosynary turnip-tops and cabbage-leaves, and stood dubious, with his two forefeet at the inside of the threshold, and with his two hinder feet towards the street, as not knowing very well whether he was to go in or no.

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"Now 'tis an animal (be in what hurry I may) I cannot bear to strike; there is a patient endurance of suffering wrote so unaffectedly in his looks and carriage which pleads so mightily for him, that it always disarms me, and to that degree that I do not like to speak unkindly to him: on the contrary, meet him where I will, whether in town or country, in cart or under panniers, whether in liberty or bondage, I have ever something civil to say to him on my part; and, as one word begets another (if he has as little to do as I), I generally fall into conversation with him; and surely never is my imagination so busy as in framing responses from the etchings of his countenance; and where those carry me not deep enough, in flying from my own heart into his, and seeing what is natural for an ass to think-as well as a man, upon the occasion.

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In truth, it is the only creature of all the classes of beings below me with whom I can do this.... With an ass I can commune for ever."

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In saying this, I pulled out a paper of 'em, which I had just bought, and gave him one;-and, at this moment that I am telling it, my heart smites me that there was more of pleasantry in the conceit of seeing _how_ an ass would eat a macaroon than of benevolence in giving him one, which presided in the act.

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But not only was he so feeble as is implied in his use of the "buckram", but "it now appears", says Mr. Peter Cunningham, "from his unpublished letters, that, like Lord Hervey, he had recourse to ass's-milk for the preservation of his health."

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What, that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white-curd of ass's-milk?

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He hardly knew an ass from a mule, nor a turkey from a goose, but when he saw it on the table.

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In the centre is represented the Virgin with the Infant Christ on a bed, with Joseph seated and leaning wearily on his staff at the foot, the figures being about fourteen inches high; above two angels swing censers, and the heads of an ox and an ass appear feeding from a manger.

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92 By Thomas Haynes Bayly #MODERN FAIRY TALES# THE ELF OF THE WOODLANDS 93 Retold from Richard Hengist Horne by William Byron Forbush PRINCESS FINOLA AND THE DWARF 95 By Edmund Leamy THE STRAW OX 100 THE LITTLE PRINCESS OF THE FEARLESS HEART 103 By B. J. Daskam MOPSA THE FAIRY 110 Retold from Jean Ingelow THE LINE OF GOLDEN LIGHT, OR THE LITTLE BLIND SISTER 114 By Elizabeth Harrison A FAIRY STORY ABOUT A PHILOSOPHER'S STONE WHICH WAS LOST 118 By M. Bowley THE BAD TEMPER OF THE PRINCESS 124 By Marian Burton THE FLYING SHIP 130 ROBIN OF THE LOVING HEART 133 By Emma Endicott Marean IN SPRING 137 A FAMOUS CASE 138 By Theodore C. Williams #OLD-FASHIONED STORIES# THE TWELVE HUNTSMEN 139 THE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES 140 EDWY AND THE ECHO 143 THE LITTLE OLD WOMAN WHO LIVED IN A VINEGAR-BOTTLE 146 THE SNOW QUEEN 148 THE MASTER-MAID 158 CAP O' RUSHES 163 FULFILLED 165 KING GRISLY-BEARD 166 Retold from the Brothers Grimm #FABLES# THE FOX AND THE GOAT 172 THE TWO FROGS 172 THE DOG IN THE MANGER 172 THE STAG AT THE POOL 172 THE WAR-HORSE AND THE ASS 172 THE FROGS WHO WANTED A KING 172 THE OX AND THE FROG 173 THE HERON WHO WAS HARD TO PLEASE 174 THE SHEPHERD BOY AND THE WOLF 175 THE ASS, THE COCK, AND THE LION 175 THE LION, THE BEAR, AND THE FOX 175 THE HORSE AND THE STAG 175 THE LION AND THE BOAR 175 THE HUNTSMAN AND THE FISHERMAN 175 THE ASS IN THE LION'S SKIN 176 THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE 177 THE FOX AND THE WOOD-CUTTER 178 THE LION AND OTHER BEASTS ON A HUNT 178 THE EAGLE AND THE ARROW 178 THE MOUSE AND THE FROG 178 THE WOLF AND THE GOAT 178 THE BAD DOG 178 THE KID AND THE WOLF 178 THE FOX AND THE GRAPES 179 THE FOX AND THE RAVEN 180 THE BULL AND THE GOAT 181 THE RAVEN AND THE SWAN 181 THE THIEF AND THE DOG 181 THE HORSE AND THE LOADED ASS 181 THE ASS WITH THE SALT 181 THE COCK AND THE JEWEL 181 THE FOX WHO HAD LOST HIS TAIL 181 THE EAGLE AND THE JACKDAW 182 THE HEN AND THE GOLDEN EGGS 183 THE DOG AND THE ASS 184 THE NORTH WIND AND THE SUN 184 THE FOX AND THE LION 184 THE CROW AND THE PITCHER 184 THE ASS AND HIS SHADOW 184 THE WOLF AND THE CRANE 184 THE FOX AND THE CRANE 185 THE CAT AND THE MONKEY 186 THE DANCING MONKEYS 187 THE HARES AND THE FROGS 187 THE LION AND THE GNAT 187 THE FROGS AND THE BULLS 187 THE LARK AND HER YOUNG ONES 187 BELLING THE CAT 187 A MILLER, HIS SON, AND THEIR ASS 188 THE TORTOISE AND THE EAGLE 190 THE PEACOCK AND JUNO 190 THE LION, THE FOX, AND THE ASS 190 THE FATHER AND HIS SONS 190 THE DOVE AND THE ANT 191 THE FOX AND THE CAT 192 THE ANTS AND THE GRASSHOPPER 193 #FABLES FROM INDIA# Adapted by Ramaswami Raju THE GLOW-WORM AND THE DAW 194 THE FOX AND THE VILLAGERS 194 THE FROG AND THE SNAKE 194 THE ASSEMBLY OF ANIMALS 194 THE COCK AND HIS THREE HENS 194 THE BLACK DOG AND THE WHITE DOG 195 THE ELEPHANT AND THE APE 195 THE CROW AND THE DAWN 195 THE LION AND THE GOAT 195 THE SUNLING 196 THE MUSHROOM AND THE GOOSE 196 THE FABLES OF PILPAY THE HINDU 196 THE FOX AND THE HEN 196 THE THREE FISHES 196 THE FALCON AND THE HEN 197 THE KING WHO GREW KIND 197 #MODERN FABLES# THE HORSES' COUNCIL 197 Adapted from John Gay THE OAK AND THE REED 198 Adapted from the French of La Fontaine THE ADVANTAGE OF KNOWLEDGE 198 Adapted from the French of La Fontaine THE TORRENT AND THE RIVER 198 Adapted from the French of La Fontaine THE TOMTIT AND THE BEAR 199 By the Brothers Grimm WHY JIMMY SKUNK WEARS STRIPES 200 By Thornton W. Burgess HOW CATS CAME TO PURR 202 By John Bennett #STORIES FROM SCANDINAVIA# THE GREEDY CAT 207 GUDBRAND ON THE HILLSIDE 210 PORK AND HONEY 212 HOW REYNARD OUTWITTED BRUIN 212 THE COCK AND THE CRESTED HEN 213 THE OLD WOMAN AND THE TRAMP 213 THE OLD WOMAN AND THE FISH 216 THE LAD AND THE FOX 217 ADVENTURES OF ASHPOT 217 NORWEGIAN BIRD-LEGENDS 219 THE UGLY DUCKLING 222 By Hans Christian Andersen THE WILD SWANS 227 By Hans Christian Andersen TAPER TOM 235 THE BOY WHO WENT TO THE NORTH WIND 236 THE WONDERFUL IRON POT 238 THE SHEEP AND PIG WHO SET UP HOUSEKEEPING 239 DOLL-IN-THE-GRASS 241 BOOTS AND HIS BROTHERS 242 VIGGO AND BEATE 244 Translated by Mrs. Gudrun Thorne-Thompson #STORIES FROM IRELAND# THE FOUR WHITE SWANS 251 THE MISHAPS OF HANDY ANDY 258 THE GREEDY SHEPHERD 263 THE COBBLERS AND THE CUCKOO 264 THE MERRY COBBLER AND HIS COAT 268 THE STORY OF CHILD CHARITY 270 By Frances Browne THE SELFISH GIANT 272 By Oscar Wilde #STORIES FROM GREAT BRITAIN# THE BATTLE OF THE BIRDS, OR THE GRATEFUL RAVEN AND THE PRINCE 275 JACK AND THE BEANSTALK 277 Retold by Mary Lena Wilson TOM THUMB 280 Retold by Laura Clarke WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT 283 WILD ROBIN 287 Retold by Sophie May THE STORY OF MERLIN 291 #JAPANESE AND OTHER ORIENTAL TALES# THE CUB'S TRIUMPH 293 CHIN-CHIN KOBAKAMA 294 THE WONDERFUL MALLET 296 THE SELFISH SPARROW AND THE HOUSELESS CROWS 298 THE STORY OF ZIRAC 298 MY LORD BAG OF RICE 302 THE LITTLE HARE OF OKI 305 Retold by B. M. Burrell THE LITTLE BROTHER OF LOO-LEE LOO 309 By Margaret Johnson THE CURIOUS CASE OF AH-TOP 314 THE JACKAL AND THE CAMEL 316 HASHNU THE STONECUTTER 316 THE TIGER, THE BRAHMAN, AND THE JACKAL 318 THE STORY OF THE WILLOW PATTERN PLATE 319 Retold by M. Alston Buckley #BR'ER RABBIT AND HIS NEIGHBORS# BROTHER FOX'S TAR BABY 321 Translated by Joel Chandler Harris THE RABBIT AND THE PEAS 322 By Mrs. M. R. Allen BR'ER RABBIT'S FISHING 325 BR'ER POSSUM LOVES PEACE 326 BR'ER FOX TACKLES OLD BR'ER TARRYPIN 327 HOW COUSIN WILDCAT SERVED BR'ER FOX 329 PLANTATION STORIES 332 By Grace MacGowan Cooke #AMERICAN INDIAN STORIES# ROBIN REDBREAST 337 THE THREE WISHES 338 THE JOKER 340 LITTLE MOCCASIN'S RIDE ON THE THUNDER-HORSE 342 By Colonel Guido Ilges WAUKEWA'S EAGLE 348 By James Buckham A HURON CINDERELLA 352 By Howard Angus Kennedy THE FIRE BRINGER 356 By Mary Austin SCAR FACE 358 WHY THE BABY SAYS "GOO" 359 Retold by Ehrma G. Filer * * * * * [Illustration: THE OLD FAIRY TALES] THE ROAD TO FAIRY LAND The day is dull and dreary, And chilly winds and eerie Are sweeping through the tall oak trees that fringe the orchard lane.

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At the same time a meek Ass went with tired step down the same road with a great load on his back.

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The Horse cried to the poor Ass to "get out of my way, or I will crush you beneath my feet."

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_No one trusts a liar even when he speaks the truth._ THE ASS, THE COCK, AND THE LION An Ass and a Cock one day ate together just as a fine Lion passed by.

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He soon saw that there was but an Ass behind him; so he stood still in his flight, laid hold of the poor Ass, and soon tore him to pieces.

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_Abstain and enjoy._ [Illustration] THE ASS IN THE LION'S SKIN An ass, having put on the lion's skin, roamed about in the forest, and amused himself by frightening all the foolish animals he met with in his wanderings.

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_Do not take a bribe to do wrong._ THE HORSE AND THE LOADED ASS A man who had a Horse and an Ass had a way of putting all the load on the back of the Ass, and none on the Horse.

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One day as they went in this way by a long, long road, the poor tired Ass tried to get the Horse to help him to bear his load.

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_Be kind to the weak._ THE ASS WITH THE SALT A Man who had an Ass heard that salt was to be bought for less gold at the seaside than where he was, so he went there to buy some.

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_It is better to be content with small things that are certain than to seek big things that are uncertain._ THE DOG AND THE ASS An Ass laden with loaves of bread was going on a long journey with a dog to guard him from harm.

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Just then they saw, in the distance, a Wolf loping toward them, and the trembling Ass begged the dog to protect him.

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And he went off and left the unfortunate Ass to his fate.

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_Necessity is the mother of invention._ THE ASS AND HIS SHADOW A Traveler hired an Ass to convey him to a distant place.

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"Pray, honest friend," said a citizen, "is that ass your own?"

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Every day his coat grew more ragged, and the hut more weather-beaten; but people remarked that he never looked sad or sour; and the wonder was that, from the time they began to keep his company the tinker grew kinder to the poor ass with which he traveled the country, the beggar-boy kept out of mischief, and the old woman was never cross to her cat or angry with the children.

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Where is that ass Coniston?

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Oh, little ass!

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"Then thou wert an ass," said his father.

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But Mercer--a toad blown up by his own wind, a consummate fiend who would sell his best friend, a fool, an ass-- For a space he held himself rigid as a stone, his face turned away from Mercer.

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That Angel who takes generally the name of GOD, and acts in his name, and with his authority;[11] who served as a guide to the Hebrews in the desert, hidden during the day in a dark cloud, and shining during the night; he who spoke to Balaam, and threatened to kill his she-ass;[12] he, lastly, who contended with Satan for the body of Moses;[13]--all these angels were without doubt good angels.

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[56] The angel who might have killed Balaam's ass was not at first perceived by the prophet;[57] Daniel was the only one who beheld the angel Gabriel, who revealed to him the mystery of the great empires which were to succeed each other.

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We know also the fable of the Golden Ass, by Apuleius, which contains the account of a man metamorphosed into an ass.

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But that, by means of certain beverages, certain herbs, and certain kinds of food, a person may disturb the imagination, and persuade another that he is a wolf, a horse, or an ass, appears more difficult of explanation, although we are aware that plants, herbs, and medicaments possess great power over the bodies of men, and are capable of deranging the brain, constitution, and imagination.

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and also is it not what he proposed to himself in the other, entitled "The Ass," whence Apuleius derived his "Golden Ass?"

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The poor man thinking he was to be changed into a bird, had had the grief to see himself metamorphosed into an ass, through the mistake of a woman who in a hurry had mistaken the box, and giving him one ointment for another.

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He thinks he's an orator--great ass!"

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I knew a fellow at Melchester, called Fosberton, an awful young ass.

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Offended at this liberty, Bouret said instantly, "Sir, you are an ass."

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A NEGRO, whom Dr. Franklin brought over from America, observed, that the only gentleman in this country was the hog--"Everything work: _man_ work, _woman_ work, _horse_ work, _bullock_ work, _ass_ work, _fire_ work, _water_ work, _smoke_ work, _dog_ work, _cat_ work; but the _hog_, he eat, he sleep, he do nothing all day--he be the only gentleman in England."

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THE following advertisement was some years ago posted up at North Shields: "Whereas several idle and disorderly persons have lately made a practice of riding on an ass belonging to Mr. ----, the head of the Ropery stairs; now, lest any accident should happen, he takes this method of informing the public, that he has determined _to shoot his said ass_, and cautions any person who may be riding on it at the time, to take care of himself, lest by some unfortunate mistake he should shoot the _wrong one_."

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A hypothetical ass may stand helpless between two equidistant bales of hay, but no human being is ever so helpless a sport of his environment.

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"What, No blush at the avowal--you dared to buy A girl of age beseems your grand-daughter, like ox or ass?

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Accordingly he concealed this command of God, and his own intentions about the slaughter of his son, from his wife, as also from every one of his servants, otherwise he should have been hindered from his obedience to God; and he took Isaac, together with two of his servants, and laying what things were necessary for a sacrifice upon an ass, he went away to the mountain.

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And when Anileus was informed of this by a Syrian stranger of another village, who not only gave him an exact account of other circumstances, but told him where Mithridates would have a feast, he took his supper at a proper time, and marched by night, with an intent of falling upon the Parthians while they were unapprised what they should do; so he fell upon them about the fourth watch of the night, and some of them he slew while they were asleep, and others he put to flight, and took Mithridates alive, and set him naked upon an ass 37 which, among the Parthians, is esteemed the greatest reproach possible.

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37 ( return ) [ This custom, in Syria and Mesopotamia, of setting men upon an ass, by way of disgrace, is still kept up at Damascus in Syria; where, in order to show their despite against the Christians, the Turks will not suffer them to hire horses, but asses only, when they go abroad to see the country, as Mr. Maundrell assures us, p.

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Now they had one servant that followed them, and an ass on which the woman rode; and when they were near Jerusalem, having gone already thirty furlongs, the servant advised them to take up their lodgings some where, lest some misfortune should befall them if they traveled in the night, especially since they were not far off enemies, that season often giving reason for suspicion of dangers from even such as are friends; but the husband was not pleased with this advice, nor was he willing to take up his lodging among strangers, for the city belonged to the Canaanites, but desired rather to go twenty furlongs farther, and so to take their lodgings in some Israelite city.

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Then did they bind him with two cords, and lead him on, in order to deliver him to the Philistines; and when they came to a certain place, which is now called the Jaw-bone, on account of the great action there performed by Samson, though of old it had no particular name at all, the Philistines, who had pitched their camp not far off, came to meet them with joy and shouting, as having done a great thing, and gained what they desired; but Samson broke his bonds asunder, and catching up the jaw-bone of an ass that lay down at his feet, fell upon his enemies, and smiting them with his jaw-bone, slew a thousand of them, and put the rest to flight and into great disorder.

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Bear witness against me, if I have taken an ox or a sheep, or any such thing, which yet when they are taken to support men, it is esteemed blameless; or have I taken an ass for mine own use of any one to his grief?-lay some one such crime to my charge, now we are in your king's presence."

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If Ziba neglected or refused to bring Mephibosheh an ass of his own, on which he might ride to David, it is half to suppose that so great a man as he was should not be able to procure some other beast for the same purpose.]

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So he made an expedition with a great army against Joram, who, not thinking himself a match for him, shut himself up in Samaria, and depended on the strength of its walls; but Benhadad supposed he should take the city, if not by his engines of war, yet that he should overcome the Samaritans by famine, and the want of necessaries, and brought his army upon them, and besieged the city; and the plenty of necessaries was brought so low with Joram, that from the extremity of want an ass's head was sold in Samaria for fourscore pieces of silver, and the Hebrews bought a sextary of dore's dung, instead of salt, for five pieces of silver.

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Now this Hermippus, in his first book concerning Pythagoras, speaks thus: "That Pythagoras, upon the death of one of his associates, whose name was Calliphon, a Crotonlate by birth, affirmed that this man's soul conversed with him both night and day, and enjoined him not to pass over a place where an ass had fallen down; as also not to drink of such waters as caused thirst again; and to abstain from all sorts of reproaches."

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However, I cannot but admire those other authors who furnished this man with such his materials; I mean Possidonius and Apollonius [the son of] Molo, 8 who, while they accuse us for not worshipping the same gods whom others worship, they think themselves not guilty of impiety when they tell lies of us, and frame absurd and reproachful stories about our temple; whereas it is a most shameful thing for freemen to forge lies on any occasion, and much more so to forge them about our temple, which was so famous over all the world, and was preserved so sacred by us; for Apion hath the impudence to pretend that, "the Jews placed an ass's head in their holy place;" and he affirms that this was discovered when Antiochus Epiphanes spoiled our temple, and found that ass's head there made of gold, and worth a great deal of money.

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To this my first answer shall be this, that had there been any such thing among us, an Egyptian ought by no means to have thrown it in our teeth, since an ass is not a more contemptible animal than 9 and goats, and other such creatures, which among them are gods.

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Apion ought to have had a regard to these facts, unless he had himself had either an ass's heart or a dog's impudence; of such a dog I mean as they worship; for he had no other external reason for the lies he tells of us.

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This man, whose name is said to have been Zabidus, came to the Jews, and promised that he would deliver Apollo, the god of Dora, into their hands, and that he would come to our temple, if they would all come up with him, and bring the whole multitude of the Jews with them; that Zabidus made him a certain wooden instrument, and put it round about him, and set three rows of lamps therein, and walked after such a manner, that he appeared to those that stood a great way off him to be a kind of star, walking upon the earth; that the Jews were terribly affrighted at so surprising an appearance, and stood very quiet at a distance; and that Zabidus, while they continued so very quiet, went into the holy house, and carried off that golden head of an ass, [for so facetiously does he write,] and then went his way back again to Dora in great haste."

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