AESOP'S FABLES - online children's book

300 favourite fables with illustrations by Arthur Rackham

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	THE MULE O NE morning a Mule, who had too much to eat and too little to do, began to think himself a very fine fellow indeed, and frisked about saying, ' My father was undoubtedly a highspirited horse and I take after him entirely.' But very soon afterwards he was put into the harness and compelled to go a very long way with a heavy load behind him. At the end of the day, exhausted by his unusual exertions, he said dejectedly to himself, " I must have been mistaken about my father ; he can only have been an ass after all."
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