Chap-books of the Eighteenth Century / With Facsimiles, Notes, and Introduction

by John Ashton

Tale 2.

There was a man of Gotham that rode to the market with two bushels of wheat, and because his horse should not be damaged by carrying too great a burden, he was determined to carry the corn himself on his own neck and still kept riding upon the horse until the end of his journey.—Now I will leave you to judge which is the wisest, his horse or himself.