87.Short Story: A Donkey and Its Load of Salt

A man’s donkey carried a load of salt to the city…….. a strewn on the way ……..the donkey slipped …….his load became much lighter ……….now he fell down in the water everyday……… the master saw through his trick………. taught him a good lesson………. Moral.

Ans:-                                       A DONKEY AND ITS LOAD OF SALT

Once there was a man. He had a donkey. The donkey carried bags of salt to the city. Thus the man earned his bread. He was happy with his present lot.

One day he was carrying loads of salt on the back of his donkey. A stream lay through the way of the donkey. By chance, the animal slipped and fell down into the stream. The master helped the donkey to get out of water. To the surprise of the beat of the burden (the donkey), his load of salt was highly lightened. He became very happy. He came to know that water helped dissolve his load of salt. Now it became his daily habit to fall_ down on one pretext or the other. He continued lightening his bags of salt. The master was suffering a heavy loss on account of the cleverness of his donkey. At last, he saw through the trick of the cunning donkey. He wanted to teach his animal a good lesson.

Next time he purchased a few bales of cotton. He loaded them on the back of his donkey. The donkey was as usual happy that he would fall down in the water and would lighten his burden. He reached the bank of the river. He slipped in the deepwater of the stream. He sat in the water for a pretty long time. The master knowingly remained aloof. He did not help the donkey to rise from the water. The cotton got soaked. It became quite heavier. The donkey could not lift it. The master lashed the animal and taught him a lasting lesson of fife. The donkey, too, learnt that all things were not to be dissolved (soluble) in the water. Some things like cotton got heavier and more troublesome.

Moral: All donkeys are not equally foolish.

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