Note 31
Tale of the Bull[FN#23] and the Ass.
In the nearer East the light little plough is carried afield by the bull or ass.
…r my failings." (Now[FN#30] the merchant, O my daughter, understood all that passed between them.) Next day the driver took the Bull, and settling the plough on his neck,[FN#31] made him work as wont; but the Bull began to shirk his ploughing, according to the advice of the Ass, and the ploughman drubbed him till he broke the yoke and made off; but the man caught him up and leathered him till he despaired of his life. Not the …
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