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A donkey with salt
(Aesop’s Fables)
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Once upon a time, a very hot day, there was a donkey staggering by loading too heavy cargo.

When he was crossing a bridge, he felt dizziness and fell into a river.

Then look what happened,
he felt his cargo suddenly getting lighter.

Since it was salt, it all dissolved into a water.
The next day, the owner of the donkey loaded very light cargo on donkey’s back.

He wanted the donkey to take easy after falling into a river.
But when the donkey saw a river nearby, he said to himself,

“If I fall again, the cargo will get lighter like yesterday.”

Then he fell into a river on purpose.
But the cargo has begin to absorb a water and got heavy like a rock, leaned against donkey’s body.
Because the cargo this time was a cotton.

A cotton becomes heavy when it absorbs a water.
By the time donkey realized what happened, it was too late and donkey was drowned to death.
Like this donkey who cheats,
might will have a bad luck even it once brought him a good luck.
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