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The Donkey and The Little Dog

(Aesop's Fables)

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　A master, who had a little dog and a donkey, would always pet the dog.

　Whenever he ate out, he brought back some delicious treats to the dog.

　When the master came home, and the dog came close to the master with its tail wagging, he gave the treats to the dog.

　The donkey could not help but feel very jealous of the dog.

　Thinking that the master would treat him in the same way as he did to the dog,

　he decided to behave like the dog, so he expressed his joy by jumping and stomping when the master came home.

　But the donkey kicked the master by mistake while jumping and stomping, which made the master furious.

　The master knocked the donkey out of the house, and yoked him to the barn.



　This story tells us that people have their own adequacy to different tasks by nature,

　so behaving like others would not make things go well.

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