Content to yield the donkey right of way.
‘Stand off!’ they cried; ‘let go there, Dick and Bob;
Let go the stone, the cart will do our job
With much more sport for us, so stand aside!’
All stood alert to see what should betide
Their wretched victim. But far otherwise
The thing fell out before their wondering eyes
Than they had thought: the donkey, bruised and lame,
At sight of woes that put his own to shame
Spared not himself, but gathered all his strength [[289]]