A MULE, lively and playful from lack of work and from too much corn, galloped about in a very extravagant manner, and said to himself: "My father surely was a high-strength racer, and I am his own child in speed and spirit."
On the next day, being driven a long journey,
and feeling very tired, he exclaimed in a
disconsolate tone: "I must have made a mistake;
my father, after all, could have been only an
ass."