{"id":88767,"date":"2026-01-10T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/?p=88767"},"modified":"2026-01-10T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T01:00:00","slug":"the-donkey-on-wheels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/?p=88767","title":{"rendered":"The Donkey On Wheels"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Donkey on Wheels<\/p>\n

“THERE was once a poor little donkey on wheels. It had never wagged its tail, or tossed its head, or said, “Hee-haw!” or tasted a tender thistle. It always went about, anywhere that anyone pulled it, on four wooden wheels, carrying a foolish knight, who wore a large cocked hat and a long cloak, because he had no legs. Now, a man who has no legs, and rides a donkey on wheels, has little cause for pride; but the knight was haughty, and seldom remembered his circumstances. So the donkey suffered sorely, and in many ways.<\/p>\n

One day the donkey and the knight were on the table in front of the child to whom they both belonged. She was cutting out a little doll’s frock with a large pair of scissors.<\/p>\n

“Mistress,” said the knight, “this donkey tries my temper. Will you give me some spurs”<\/p>\n

“Oh, no, sir knight,” the child answered. “You would hurt the poor donkey; besides, you have no heels to put them on.”<\/p>\n

“Cruel knight!” exclaimed the donkey. “Make him get off, dear mistress; I will carry him no longer.”<\/p>\n

“Let him stay,” said the child, gently; “he has no legs, and cannot walk.”
\n“Then why did he want spurs”<\/p>\n

“Just the way of the world, dear donkey; just the way of the world.”<\/p>\n

“Ah!” sighed the donkey, “some ways are very trying, especially the world’s;” and then it said no more, but thought of the fields it would never see, and the thistles it would never taste.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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