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The Gnat & The Bull - Summary and Analysis | Aesop Fables

  This fable tells us the story of a Gnat who thought he was very important. I narrated The fable and you can find it by pressing the link  The Gnat & The Bull . The Fable:  A Gnat flew over the meadow with much buzzing for so small a creature and settled on the tip of one of the horns of a Bull. After he had rested a short time, he made ready to fly away. But before he left he pompously begged the Bull's pardon for having used his horn for a resting place. ‘I will go now so as not to burden you any longer" The bull, merely raised his eyes and replied "Much obliged, but I did not even know you were there".  The  Moral Lesson  is that "we often think ourselves of greater importance than we really are." In different versions of this fable there are similar morals such as "we are often of greater importance in our own eyes than in the eyes of our neighbor" or "the smaller the mind the greater the conceit". The fable applies to feebl

The Wild Donkey & The Pack Donkey - Summary and Analysis | Aesop Fables

This Fable tells us the story of two donkeys one of whom was a wild donkey that had no boss and the other was a pack donkey that had a master.  You can listen to the Fable by following the link  The Wild Donkey & The Pack Donkey . The story begins with a wild donkey, who is idly wandering  about, when he comes upon a pack donkey. The pack donkey is lying relaxed and enjoying himself in a sunny spot. The wild donkey envies the pack donkey and considers him lucky. But after a while, when he meets him again, the pack donkey is loaded with a heavy cargo and his driver is beating him with a thick stick. At that point the wild donkey realizes the hardship the other donkey has to go through.  This fable shows how a certainty may turn into uncertainty and tell us how appearances are often deceptive. A person may make a mistaken judgement by seeing only one part someone else's life. Thus the wild donkey expresses his envy  towards the pack donkey and the life he thinks the other one le