We sometimes look down on those who are not only our equals in usefulness, but whose honest labor has helped to make us better off than themselves.
FAT AND LEAN.
A STRONG fat ox stood with his eyes half shut, chewing the cud, while his driver heaped up a heavy load of stone on the cart he was yoked to.
A neighbor, who chanced to be riding by on a fast but very lean horse, stopped to speak to the man. The horse, on being held in, began to paw the ground, as if impatient to go on, then, looking around scornfully at the ox, said:
“What do you stand there chewing the cud for now?”