A traveler
hired an Ass to convey him to a distant place.
The day being intensely hot, and the sun shining in its strength, the Traveler
stopped to rest, and sought shelter from the heat under the Shadow of the
Ass. As this afforded only protection
for one, and as the Traveler and the owner of the Ass both claimed it, a violent
dispute arose between them as to which of them had the right to the
Shadow. The owner maintained that he had
let the Ass only, and not his Shadow. The
Traveler asserted that he had, with the hire of the Ass, hired his Shadow
also. The quarrel proceeded from words
to blows, and while the men fought, the Ass galloped off.
In
quarreling about the shadow we often lose the substance.
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